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… Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … seen whether George W. will allow his administration to be completely captured by his fossil fuel buddies. Eisenhower, … the environmental movement proved to be a formidable competitor for legislators’ attention into the early 1990s. …

… on faculty hires. Suddenly, new Ph.D.s found themselves competing with a hundred or even a thousand other candidates … despondent souls at any academic conference, squirming uncomfortably in their suits and waiting — always waiting for … should support actors and artists in the 1930s, New Deal official Harry Hopkins simply responded, “Hell, they’ve got …

… Now that Ford Motor Company has announced its “Way Forward” restructuring plan, … countless visitors, among them Charlie Chaplin, who visited it before he produced “Modern Times,” the classic … saving considerable money, space and labor. Even JIT’s official creator, Taiichi Ohno, acknowledged that he had …

… nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of English literature. Title page of the … shortly after being born and her half-sister Fanny Godwin committed suicide, a couple of months later Percy’s wife committed suicide, and just before the publication of the …

… lives and change the face of the planet for generations to come. Gavrilo Princip Legend tells that shortly before his … and exploitation. Socialist-era Sarajevo memorial site where Gavrilo Princip shot the archduke. Reads: "From … prism through which more recent events were being debated, official planners expressed their commitment to combat yet …

… allows us to reflect on such important ideas as justice, communal violence, and political legitimacy. Like any civil … views among Creek people concerning the direction of their communities. But the civil war was also about justice. … a tract larger than the size of modern Portugal. American officials, citing the “unprovoked, inhuman, and sanguinary …

… 4:45 pm, the smoke and shouts brought them running to the site. They watched, helpless, as firefighters tried … watching scores of young women and several young men die, combined with the awful realization that this tragedy could … steeled the determination of workers, activists, and public officials to ensure that disasters like Triangle would never …

… the machine when I heard some Greek expletives and saw a commotion in front of me. The ATM ran out of money. I spent … accept the bailout conditions proposed by the European Commission. What felt like a scene from some apocalyptic … investment confidence and a bleak economic outlook. Officials signing the documents for the accession of Greece …

… the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has conveyed “water, … limited sources of water that face “constant threats.”  The company employs dams and other barrages, pumps, irrigation … through neighborhoods containing viruses, bacteria, parasites, toxic metals, and other pollution. The industrial …

… one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … more important, the current round of reforms is part of a complex and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of … to the West for the technologies and ideologies needed to compete in European international politics. In the usual …

… legacy with which Americans will sooner or later have to come to terms: today we live in a society of greater … critically weakened the one entity best equipped to combat growing income inequality in the United States: organized labor. …

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to "Election 2020: Insights from History" coming to you … under the Reagan administration targeting black elected officials down in the deep south. And so one of the … wouldn't want their children to marry someone of the opposite party. The sense that the people in the other party are …

… Catholic Republic of Ireland, an utterly unacceptable outcome. They therefore fiercely fought the civil rights … in Belfast. The police, overwhelmingly Unionist, were complicit in the violence, leaving Catholics with no obvious … IRA. The majority faction came to be known as the Official IRA. Shortly afterward, Sinn Fein split along …

… Nadler of New York warned that "if we don't want to become an empire instead of a republic," Congress must …  Congressman Nadler disagrees.  "The president is becoming an absolute monarch," he said.   As a Democrat, … decades of the 20th century.  President Woodrow Wilson, who complained that the Constitution previously had "hampered …

… When Al Gore allegedly claimed he invented the Internet, comedians, political  pundits and Republicans had a field … optic network, along with the servers, software and other components of what became the Internet, didn't differ from … federal agencies. This was not so. At least  one elected official actively participated in creating the Internet: Al …

… and Russia, and with nearly two times the per-capita income of China, Brazil is on track to become a major force in the global economy. How Things Change … Polls moved sharply in her favor, however, after Rousseff officially declared her candidacy and began to campaign in …

… William B. Ross died while governor in October 1924 from complications following an emergency appendectomy. The … who chose for Lurleen not to know. Then in 1965, doctors officially diagnosed her with uterine cancer.  George and … the District of Columbia. Women gubernatorial officeholders come from both major U.S. political parties. Since December …

… parties, struggle with their sexuality, track “likes” and “comments” on Facebook, experience domestic abuse, and dream … of telephone eventually played by writers who had never visited Greenland, reports through the centuries grew more … Each time, Denmark vehemently refused.  Greenland was officially incorporated into the Danish realm as a county in …

… In fact, as surprising as it may be to sports watchers and commentators, how Americans talk about sports today is a … interpreted the classical past. We hear these classical comparisons especially in discussions about collegiate … games such as the Olympics only collected foliage crowns as official prizes, they did receive monetary or other material …

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone. I'm …   Dr. Mytheli Sreenivas   Well, I think that, so India is officially according to its constitution, a secular … both of those countries in 1947. So that's another ongoing site of tension. A lot of that is around, the around the …

… united in a struggle for civil and political rights, they comprise various tribal affiliations and speak different … are adherents of the Yazidi faith, a religion that shares common elements with Christianity, Islam, and … their own district by Baku with its center at Lachin. Officially known as the Kurdistan Uezd (“Red Kurdistan” or …

… at … well, any number of things. Lumping them together, the commentariat called all these angry voters “populists” and … ( bottom right ). Whatever else they may or may not have in common ideologically, these populists share an antipathy … as a snob and elitist ( right ). But “elite” has become an epithet lately in our political discourse. The …

… Daniela Edmeier   Hello everyone and welcome to picturing Black History Webinar today brought to you … stats and numbers can be. It is the people that work on site with this material that keeps Archive living and … Woodson in Black History Month, attains a certain kind of official recognition from President Reagan, but also to …

… the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, delivering sharp comic material about his recently released long-form birth … in the face of international criticism. When American officials questioned the killings, he called the U.S. … and Samar Islands in November 2013, then-Mayor Duterte visited within days and coordinated his own aid effort, while …