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… at the end of World War I. With the Kaiser gone,a whole new form of political life was created nearly from scratch; … Weitz helps the reader understand how and why the fragile, complex, and tense culture of Weimar Germany motivated these … developments. However, he sees this culture as something ultimately determined by politics and economics, even saying …

… 300,000 Black people gathered in Harlem’s Mount Morris Park for the Harlem Cultural Festival, a series of concerts … Mongo Santamaría and Style in Harlem.   1969 was a complex moment. Even as the festival affirmed the victories … jailing of the Panther 21, local party members accused and ultimately acquitted of planning coordinated attacks. The  …

… the British military. Yet, they also inherited the English common law tradition of regulating arms. English statutes … gun use and the Bill of Rights specified that arms were for defense “as allowed by law.” Colonial leaders carefully … committed with firearms. 10. District of Columbia v. Heller Ultimately, the issue of gun control remains contentious, …

… she merely mentions some of the primary sources available for studying the history of food in this period.  Pinkard's … and systematic.  The rise of these characteristics ultimately meant that French cuisine was accessible to more … debates about food in the Enlightenment.  These books combine descriptions of food and ingredients with innovative …

… to see if they carry unauthorized content or “harmful information.” Xinjiang became a dystopian surveillance society … more recently, of settler colonialism. It is also based on competing visions of history and of who belongs to the land. … ( Uyghur diyari ) if they were allowed to do so. Western commentators often suggest that Uyghurs are closer to …

… ten historical moments help us understand the long and complicated relationships Catalunya has had with Spain as … and the Basque country have their own independent police forces and the Basque Country and Navarra have independent … the housing bubble. The yellow line represents median house prices and the green line represents the price of inflation. …

… wanting to write its own ticket and wishing to speed efforts to solve the world’s problems. Conspicuously first … concerns. Whether subduing Iraq and Afghanistan, combating sex trafficking, restricting nuclear weaponry or … for Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was visiting London for medical attention. Now a foreign …

… After forty years, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy … day in Dallas in 1963. In an inaugural address that has become a poignant reminder of the idealism of the 1960s, JFK … in the initial American casualties in that conflict and ultimately to the escalation of a U.S. presence there. But …

… 13.77 billion years ago, our entire observable universe was compressed into the size of a peach and had a temperature of … extreme temperatures and pressures the four fundamental forces of nature – strong nuclear, weak nuclear, … (National Institute of Standards and Technology/emiT Team) The mysteries continue as our universe ages. Matter …

… Congress recently voted to appropriate $162 billion more for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the bill, the … debt ceiling. These routine but necessary measures became complicated when the Eagleton Amendment was added to them. … role of deciding when the United States was to make war. Ultimately, Congress approved the compromise, the funding …

… John McCain probably lost whatever chance he had to become president on August 28, the day he invited Sarah Palin … has been a distinguished and able Senate leader who has performed well in the national spotlight. Obama’s carefully … Palin helped John McCain rally Republican loyalists but ultimately her presence made it impossible for him to …

… FY2011 budget. The President’s budget eliminates funding for Save America’s Treasures and Preserve America programs … the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City to Acoma Sky City in New Mexico. NTHP activists are gathering in …   Their phenomenal achievement took eight years of grueling teamwork by some of the nation’s greatest minds. Aldrin and …

… year, Russia’s legacy as an imperial power has suddenly become the stuff of current affairs. As Russian leaders assert … have also looked to strengthen ties with (or just annex) former imperial domains, from Crimea to Kazakhstan. Many … integral in making the parts fit together in an awkward but ultimately coherent way. Sunderland traces Ungern’s life …

… Clinton will soon be traveling south of the Rio Grande for a summit with his Mexican counterpart Ernesto Zedillo. … bilateral trade, illegal immigration, and joint efforts to combat drug trafficking. Political reform in Mexico should … harsh realities of Mexican politics during his upcoming visit.  To champion President Zedillo as an agent of change, …

… via the northern coasts of Scandinavia and Russia—paid a visit to the Greenland ice cap. During this journey, he … construction of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline. Although ultimately futile, opposition in the 1970s to Norway’s … levels worldwide—was declared all but unavoidable by a team of glaciologists in Nature: Communications Earth and …

… 11 attacks, Congress is now moving to create a bipartisan commission to investigate intelligence gathering policies … rights and the status of women in the United States, come forward with both a critical analysis and concrete … impeaching the president, showed that there was a political price to pay for getting caught defying the Church committee …

… Vladimir Putin’s case for war in Ukraine is simple but flawed. In his view there … state was “entirely created” by the Bolsheviks after the communist seizure of power in 1917 as part of Lenin’s … war saw many parties controlling parts of Ukraine, but ultimately the Bolsheviks won. Their victory meant that …

… by the specter of our nuclear past. And given Japan's complicated past with nuclear issues, it is especially … to the heat produced by nuclear fission, turning it to steam, which then pushes turbines that generate electricity. … Perhaps this lack of delay is understandable given the ultimately minor damage caused by the partial meltdown at …

… People. Dr. Jacob is the Intercultural Specialist for Native American and indigenous Students and Dr. Rivers … there's that opportunity to engage. You can go and actually visit the Newark Earthworks Center over in Newark. They do … recent examples of changes to names of places, sports teams, etc. Can you foresee there ever being a change to the …

… and the White Russian military, and only functioned for three years before Zog dissolved the government and … the multireligious provisional government was challenged by competing leadership, most notably the Republic of Central … factional, split between pro- and anti-Italian sympathies.  Ultimately, those who favored Italy were unable to control …

… Chances are that in a few months Hurricane Sandy will be forgotten.   Politicians are already talking about … but their sailor towns. Those who now occupy the high-priced condos in New York’s Battery City are there to … owners and land developers, and in the process have become increasingly vulnerable. They have become the hard edge …

… relationship with the larger world. The result is a compelling, albeit incomplete, portrait of politics in a … With the conquest of Arabia, the armies of Islam swept forth and established the vast, but short-lived, Umayyad … world and had acquired the title of caliph. However, they ultimately succumbed to the intrinsic centrifugal forces of …