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… Nestled between the Dniester River to the west and the Ukrainian border to … near the village of Maiak on the morning of April 26, when five to ten individuals planted 12 anti-tank mines at a … rule, Transnistria—its population still largely Ukrainian—was united with Bessarabia to form the Moldovan Soviet …

… and neither side gained much territory. A peace treaty was never signed; the Korean War has never officially ended. … of the Japanese Empire, but this period was indeed when Kim gained his nationalistic credentials as a Korean … orthodoxy. The regime mixed elements of ethnic chauvinism, Leninist centralism, Third Worldism, and revolutionary …

… John Brooke, Jennifer Eaglin and Samuel White about the historical context of climate change. ( Image Source ) … … all's questions. Many of you already submitted questions when you registered, others, we welcome that you all … culture and nature. And so the question of climate, what was the nature of climate? How did it change was of interest …

… of hard-hitting campaigning and nationwide discussions on the need for change, the United States elected an African … in economics from Harvard University (p. 30).  Although he was highly qualified for a number of positions, his color … and the transformation of the American city at a moment when civil rights was viewed largely as a Southern issue.  …

… will rely on a fair amount of data to discuss what I see as the significance of international adoption. However, I want … to constitute or re-constitute families, to provide homes when birth parents could not or would not do so, to serve as … back to the early years of white settlement, the practice was long governed informally and on an ad hoc basis. …

… Hurrah! The war in Northern Ireland is over. There will be … and Protestants to end. The very weekend agreement was reached by the Northern Ireland political parties the … The pattern has continued to the present day. In 1969, when Cathal Goulding, the chief of staff of the IRA, and his …

… call the city home. What is now a bustling metropolis was until quite recently a grim Soviet-style city. In fact, … it was not officially established as a town until 1614, when a mosque, bazaar, and Turkish baths were built at what … to make way for government buildings, and statues of Lenin and Hoxha himself were erected. Aerial image of …

… There’s no denying that the Vikings and Norse mythology are … were bound by strict legal and societal expectations that, when broken, could have dire consequences, from fines to … requires further examination. Viking Age Scandinavia was an oral society, and writing was limited to runic …

… is dangerous. And, consequently, expensive. That first fact was brought painfully home the morning of Feb. 1 as the space shuttle Columbia … receives much attention. Who can remember where they were when Intelsat IVA F-5 failed to reach orbit on Sept. 29, …

… intercontinental ballistic missile on July 5 only delays the inevitable. Soon Pyongyang will have a missile that can reach the United States and when it does a Second Cold War will begin. The failed launch … advertisements openly solicit suicide bombers. Deterrence was also effective in the first Cold War because the …

… perpetrated by the Kiev regime.” His mission, he claimed, was “to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine.”  In Putin’s … of the Jews of Kyiv in the fall of 1941, until 1976. When a monument was finally erected, it honored the … TV Rain who “disrespected” the anniversary of the Siege of Leningrad in January 2014 by asking whether it would have …

… It was February 2014 in Kyiv , Ukraine. I stood in the wet cold with Ukrainians of all ages, from all over the … the mood of the protests changed at the end of the month when students who came to sleep on Maidan were violently …

… It was on Christmas day ten years ago that Kremlin guards hauled down the Soviet flag for the last time and Mikhail Gorbachev … last decade by reconsidering several faulty assumptions. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many influential …

… Over the past months, the news media has presented dramatic … throughout the Ottoman Empire. At the same time that was going on, there was large-scale, voluntary immigration, … But again, that was largely voluntary in nature. So when we talk about Syrians today, as well as Iraqis today, I …

… Coming to terms with the American Civil War is no easy task. The scale of its … intervention and the question of whether the Civil War was a "just" war and a "total" war. Other chapters reflect … slave states that foreshadowed the political breakdown." When gold was discovered in California, tens of thousands of …

… At the heart of the suffrage movement was a shared belief that … suffrage organization that I mentioned in Episode 1, and when women were excluded from the Civil War Amendments and …

… of our episode on infrastructure and public investment in the United States, host Patrick Potyondy interviews Tom … aviation, bridges, dams, drinking water, energy, hazardous waste, inland waterways, levees, ports, public parks and … that is actually, in 2013, higher than it was in 2009, when it was at a D.  Patrick Potyondy   Okay, so there has …

… Nuclear power was touted as the solution to  peak oil and promoted as “energy too cheap … years) in excess of 20,000 picocuries per liter (pCi/L). When  NPPs are decommissioned they become waste. Even as new …

… dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini to decide the fate of Czechoslovakia. They agreed to Hitler’s demand … “doves” of supporting bankrupt pre-World War II tactics whenever they sought negotiations with an opponent. Before … a face-saving way to get out of Kuwait before his nation was attacked — Saddam agreed to withdraw if the leading …

… In early 2013 I took a tour of Corregidor Island, at the mouth of Manila Bay. Our guide ushered us through the … it would not reopen American bases in the Philippines, nor was the intent to “contain China.” This statement came in … on the services of Chinese brokers. Numbering around 20,000 when the Spanish arrived, the Chinese in the Philippines had …

… Korea’s nuclear weapons program are reviving memories of “the forgotten war,” the war in Korea. But the real key to … things for ourselves, the Koreans or the rest of the world. When the Korean fighting began, most Americans assumed that … defeating our opponents unconditionally, whether their sign was a swastika, a rising sun or a hammer and sickle. …

… The hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, is a central … Bridge, 2009. Even so, last year’s hajj witnessed tragedy when a construction crane collapse in Mecca killed more than … One effect of colonial domination of Muslim-majority lands was that the hajj came under European influence and control …

… death in East Africa. Famine has overwhelmed aid agencies. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says that more … to flee their communities in search of food, but there was little to find. A letter published by the Russian writer … and bandits. The word desperation is an understatement when it comes to the plight of Somali refugees.   The first …

… The 2020 U.S. elections have resulted in a new … of the country rejected Donald Trump. While this backlash was perhaps concentrated on domestic matters and … but the world it promoted stuck rigidly to U.S. models. When strategically important countries strayed from the …