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… political transition that followed under the supervision of King Juan Carlos, whom the dictator had selected as his personal successor. Working together behind closed doors, these transitional elites …

… Islamist group that the military had kept from taking power in January 1992. He underscored as well what he … But not only did the rebelling armies target humorists for assassination, surviving death lists that the militants had … lists makes clear that the insurgents prioritized attacking artists whose work resonated with the population and …

… observers anticipated a contest between former President Martin Van Buren (D-NY) and Henry Clay (Whig-KY). Van Buren … vote -- the worst performance by an incumbent President seeking re-election by a wide margin. 8. 1940 Advertisement for …

… during an earlier era of Sino-American competition. Yet looking at Chinese engagement in Africa over the last 50 years … open things up for discussion. If you're interested in asking a question, please write it in the Q&A function at the … and the policy rhetoric coming out of Beijing. So after taking power on the mainland, the Chinese Communist Party …

… on June 9, demonstrations grew to over a million people, making them the largest protests in decades. Over the summer, … Xiuquan, the leader of the iconoclastic Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ, set about … The war devastated China, pushing the Qing to their breaking point and costing between 20 and 30 million lives. …

… civil war, but exacerbated it by arming Muslim, Arabic-speaking tribal militias (the Missiriya, the Rizeigat, and the … places, historic enmities persisted between Arabic-speaking settlers and southern tribes. Armed with the latest … notorious for many human rights violations such as the assassination of critical Fertit and Dinka tribal leaders as …

… rather than the wealthy, sophisticated and islamized kingdoms of West Africa, prepared Europeans for the shock of …

… politics have made a difference in energy policy-making since the 1970s, shaping the long transition in new … (supply).   Continuing technological breakthroughs  (fracking and horizontal drilling) enabled them to do just that … While other nations pushed back against using fracking, U.S. production became relevant again. So American …

… projects in the village. (He also corresponded with the king of Georgia.) View of Martkopi, Georgia, with the …

… sailor described it watching from the deck of the HMS King George: “There were the most awful screams one could …

… Sea region, and for any government official tasked with working on the issues in that troubled part of the world. A … to make their own informed answer. So, along with Charles King’s The Black Sea , Andrew Wilson’s The Ukrainians: …

… work ahead of schedule. Relief showing an earthquake striking the forum of Pompeii, House of Caecilius Iucundus, … he accepted nothing from any private citizen or city or king, although many kept offering and promising him large … to disaster demonstrates that the social network is working as designed. In Roman disaster response, emperors …

… Andes, in the city of Puno, U.S. researchers have begun working with the National University of the Altiplano (UNA) to … ancestors,” they wrote. Yet during the colonial era, the King of Spain had granted the lands to Spanish military … achieve what some have called the ‘Green Revolution.’” Looking for International Help In further pursuit of green …

… showing where cholera was thought to spread. The "Court for King Cholera" was the slums, largely due to overcrowding and … has made the death toll from COVID-19 feel all the more shocking. Yet scientists are optimistic about the current …

… the rainy season, the road's stones become very slippery, making transportation difficult. The Gordon Road between Lake … is perfectly pure and has special properties: anyone drinking it will be healed from diseases and even relieved from … the world, including the United States and the United Kingdom. Daily Life and Cuisine in Livingstonia The majority …

… An Archeological Dig in Israel  [PDF] The Man Who Would Be King  [PDF] Volume II, No. 3, Autumn 1994 [ View pdf .] …

… found nothing unusual about Russia’s new law. In the United Kingdom, homosexuality was only decriminalized in 1967. Two … well in Russian society. The new Russian legislation is striking in large part because it underscores the diverging … is to examine the fundamentally different ways of thinking about rights and the individual’s relation to society …

… had served as Vladimir Lenin's (1870-1924) successor. Taking Trotsky's post-exile criticisms of Stalinism at … History at Oxford University, counters such speculative thinking with his new biography on Trotsky. Coming after his … which covers Trotsky's years in exile, from 1929 until his assassination in Mexico in 1940. During this time Trotsky …

… London Evening News . This was brought to the attention of King George V, who issued a proclamation calling for the … of the war. Austro-Hungarian posters from 1916-1918 asking citizens to take out war loans to support the war … from the United States served the ancillary purpose of linking the U.S. economy directly to the allied cause—to …

… created in Napoleon a ruler more absolute than the Bourbon kings, and spawned a Terror greater in scope than that of … Dangerous (Thinking) Liaisons …