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… and state corrupted both institutions. The state risked becoming subject to religious controversies that would … religious creeds. Moreover, established churches risked becoming tools of the state rather than of salvation, favoring … increasingly, they believed that the right of a religious community to set the terms for membership trumped the …

… the machine when I heard some Greek expletives and saw a commotion in front of me. The ATM ran out of money. I spent … occupied by Nazi Germany, Bulgaria, and Italy. German soldiers raising their flag over the Acropolis in 1941 ( left … military junta featured a phoenix rising from flames, a soldier, and the date of the coup d’état ( right ). …

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website origins.osu.edu on iTunes and on Soundcloud and as …

… one day after the author's arrival. ( United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees ) We came to Greece with only a … measures imposed on Greece by Europe's central monetary bodies . A pro-refugee banner from Piraeus. (Photo by author) … our most frequent tasks was preparing baby formula—not an easy feat, given that all the instructions on the donated …

… Professor, Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Peter Mansoor, Professor and General Raymond E. Mason … Margaret Newell: Welcome! Thank you for joining us today for the “First 100 Days … an associate professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at OSU. She is a 2020-21 ACLS/Mellon Scholars and …

… “elected” president of Syria. The unrest resulted from a combination of socio-economic and political problems that … Alawites, furthermore, ignore Islamic sanitary practices, dietary restrictions, and religious rituals. The … For instance, they provided a disproportionate number of soldiers to the French mandate government, forming about half …

… and make their own choices free from the influence of the common people. Instead, nearly all states allowed the … the voter and the official a political machine with a complicated system of caucuses and conventions, by the easy manipulation of which it thwarts the will of the voter …

… supply global agriculture with one of its most important commodities: synthetic fertilizer. In the process, the … who had legitimate reason to believe that they had found an easy and affordable way to counter a significant public … an informal epidemiological study. He examined the local diet, soil conditions, and air quality, but eventually …

… threat to public health: the specter of a pandemic, and the complacent American response. The so-called "Spanish" flu … million people around the world, more than the number who died in World War I battles. In the United States it killed … Why should we have forgotten the modern equivalent of the medieval Black Death? Perhaps because it killed mostly the …

… unrecognized until recently by anyone in the international community. It has its own government, though largely staffed … international community—pushed Georgian villagers and soldiers out of the Kodori Gorge. This is part of Abkhazia that … the 1990s, the conflict dynamic changed. Now smugglers, soldiers, nationalist politicians and Russian "peacekeepers" …

… corruption scandals, doping controversies and rampant commercialism have done so little to dent the popularity of … Olympic teams. Even before the First World War, sport had become, as one French official put it, "a matter of state." … a sign that the "Free World" was in danger of losing to communism. This thinking has given the Olympics a political …

… August 19, 14 CE, the most influential man in Roman history died. Augustus began his career by fomenting a civil war, … forming a military junta, then violently eliminating any competition before fighting the other members of the junta. … of what common Romans might have thought, surely, the soldiers who died with gashes in their thighs or fractured …

… that Iraq was a significant threat to the international community. Why is that? Because, the United States — from … The problem was the second attack never occurred. Naval commanders couldn’t even confirm whether their ships had … the disintegrated Iraqi military posed to the international community. Although military press briefings report that …

… Yemen’s internationally recognized government is sitting comfortably in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 900 miles away from … dozens of protesters were killed in March 2011, civil disobedience was accompanied by attacks in retribution, … of the deposed Imam Muhammad al-Badr. An Egyptian soldier showing a Yemeni recruit how to use a bayonet in the …

… Film Institute ranks the film as the third best American comedy ever made and the 39th best film overall. It would be … can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!” But few comedies have endured like Dr. Strangelove, and Strangelove has … War was a farce. And so, rather than preaching to its audience about the possibilities of apocalypse, Dr. …

… Patrick Potyondy   This is your host Patrick Potyondy and welcome to History Talk the history podcast for everyone … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website origins.osu.edu on iTunes and on Soundcloud and as …

… the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, delivering sharp comic material about his recently released long-form birth … message needed to be more welcoming to younger, non-white audiences, particularly on issues of immigration and social … and, with the assistance of the central bank, offered cheap credit to companies. With demand for labor rising in …

… manufacturers who overcharged taxpayers and cost many soldiers their lives. Like these divisive measures, the current … draft exemption for college students. At the time, family income was the largest single determinant of who attended … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. …

… some political pundits conclude, negotiations cannot overcome divine principles dictating distinct worldviews that … Rightly Guided Caliphs were chosen by a consensus of the community. This was not a democracy; it was instead a … as  ashura . Shi'is believe that Husayn was a martyr who died the rightful leader of the political community. …

… an enterprising radio newsman unsatisfied with the comments from an obscure Midwestern astronomer, sped to … to drink a bottle of poison.  Two people reportedly died from heart attacks.  The Washington Post declared … stupidity and ignorance of thousands” and proved how easy it was “to start a mass delusion.”  The panic vividly …

… religiously intolerant regimes in the world today.   The outcome of the recent referendum in California shows us that …

… Politics." Thanks for being on the show Sarah, and welcome.  Sarah Siff   My pleasure. Thanks.  Patrick Potyondy   … process of writing through that and have your graduate studies, you're a PhD student in the history department here at OSU. I'm wondering if your graduate studies in history have prepared you for only specific types of …

… going to take their seats the next day and that they were completely resolute in overturning the election and bringing … only survivors were two persons buried alive in a pile of bodies. The media have also discussed how the Kenyan political … in British East Africa (now Kenya) Kenyatta briefly studied economics in Moscow at the Comintern school, KUTVU …