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… by historians, depicted by artists and celebrated by common people. In 1880, the French chose to make the … times of deterritorialized terror, outsourced prisons, bitcoins, and subcontracted state and military arbitrariness, … to Independence Square in Kyiv (not to mention the recent commemorations of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Movement ). The …

… in the last year on what people are calling “ the Maduro Diet ,” a scathing reference to current president Nicolás … in 2016. Diphtheria, once thought eradicated, has made a comeback . By some estimates, 2.5 million people have left … and increases dependence on foreign imports, which are cheaper. When oil money is flowing, imports increase. …

… face an uncertain future in the sprawling Dadaab camp complex in Kenya barely register on the radar of the global … Somalia must first walk for weeks across a desert and many die along the way or soon after arrival. This mass gravesite … of Greece after sailing from Turkey in 2015. It is all too easy to conceive of present-day asylum seekers as figures …

… the 1700s, European smallpox epidemics seem to have been comparatively mild, with minimal death rates. But thereafter … in the Punjab in Western India (now Pakistan) 47 percent died. As recently as 1972, an epidemic broke out in a … were hospitalized, and nearly half the 764 patients died. Similarly, of 79 unvaccinated patients who became ill …

… Lewis Mumford hoped hydroelectric power would allow for cheap and sustainable urban development in Oregon but … are being built in Brazil and China, while campaigns to decommission dams are gaining traction in the United States … useable hydraulic head of over 200 meters.   10.  Nature’s Tallest Dam: Usoi Dam, Tajikistan Map of Lake Sarez and Usoi …

… The result, according to Goldstein: "I think the healthy diet is in jeopardy." In this context, historian Susan … early twentieth century to the present, highlighting the complex interaction of politics, economics, nutrition, and … designed to feed hungry children while also improving the diets of middle- and upper-class children. Part of …

…   Mark Sokolsky  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … and modern Arabic literature. And I'm Middle East Studies librarian here at OSU.   Gulsah Toronoglu  Hi, I'm … Mark Sokolsky. Song and bad information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at …

… Class is back. Whatever its other accomplishments, the Occupy Wall Street movement that sprouted … all boats. Harry S Truman, who became president when FDR died in office in 1945 and narrowly won a second term in … "doesn't count" when trying to balance the budget. Reagan gutted social programs and implemented a 25 percent …

… but the game itself made no money. Men’s college basketball commenced with a similarly obscure contest.  In 1895 at … NCAA was founded. When at least 18 college football players died and as many as 168 were seriously injured during the … workers, permeates the NCAA system. In 1955 Ray H. Dennison died after sustaining a head blow while playing football for …

… Drexel Burnham Lambert, Michael Milken’s junk bond shop, to die a slow death from 1986 to 1990, the term “regulation” … landscape and lexicon. This trend has left ever more complex financial markets and multinationals to operate in … build a support package for several nearly insolvent trust companies. This effort quelled market panic and made Morgan …

… series was more appropriate for a small, paying Showtime audience than a network broadcast. Reagan supporters also … history. Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, complained that the CBS script contains language … president says in the drama, “They that live in sin shall die in sin.” After much protest, CBS agreed to remove the …

… be eclipsed by the next scandal before too long. If we’re becoming a more liberal society, shouldn’t there be fewer and … that have governed our culture since the colonial era. Some commentators will bemoan the apparent moral corruption of … of these scandals broke in the news media of the day. One commonality among political sex scandals today is that the …

… to drive cars. Social and political control over women’s bodies, however, extends well beyond the Islamic world. In … of their freedom or with those who control women’s bodies in the service of a larger state agenda? Remember that …

… June 23, 2016, while most of the world was awaiting the outcome of the Brexit vote, another major historical event was … the appropriate economic development model. Three child soldiers during the War of a Thousand Days (1898-1902). Between … nearing their conclusion. Politically this has not been easy, for as much as the generic idea of peace is favored in …

… one thing, it was a misbegotten war. Lacking today’s fast communications, Washington didn’t learn until after the … in early 1815, might also have been avoided with faster communications. The battle took place two weeks after … impressment of American seamen and raids on American commerce seemed a dire threat to the young nation’s …

… holding a variety of assets — real estate, weapons, communications equipment and large amounts of cash and … need not be conducted by basement-dwelling devotees of Soldier of Fortune magazine. There are professional entities … it. Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for strategic studies at The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the …

… epidemiological data on infectious diseases, and offer recommendations on sanitation. The OIPH would later become a … 50 million people in 1948. While treatment was relatively easy to provide, the cost of multiple penicillin injections … for the WHO. There are many possible reasons why: Lee died suddenly in 2006, and his successor, Hong Kong-born …

… initiated." That evening, in a foreshadowing of events to come, fireworks lit the sky above Fort Sumter. Who could … slavery, or that slavery was not the root cause of the bloodiest conflict in our history.   And Masoff has company in … hanging on the wall of his office.   As the nation readies itself for anniversary ceremonies marking the war …

… It was then the longest war in U.S. history; although commonly dated as beginning in 1965 with American bombing … at times tortured, brutalized, and killed by American soldiers in search-and-destroy missions. The total number of Americans who died or are missing in the war is just over 58,000, while …

… for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … his troops (a significant percentage of whom were child soldiers), reached the capital of Kinshasa in a mere seven … months. Mobutu left for longtime ally Morocco, where he died soon after. The relationship between L-D. Kabila (who …

… and Voltaire. Diderot is remembered today mostly as a compiler of others people's work in his role as editor of the Encyclopédie, although he wrote a number of his own philosophical … materialistic content Diderot imbedded in the Encyclopédie itself.  Many of their works were also lost or …