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… would serve merely as an explicit reminder of the U.N.'s incompetence.   An examination of the situation with an eye to … too quickly and therefore resulted in too many shortsighted compromises.   The order to follow the Second World War … Security Council. Meanwhile, the General Assembly and its accompanying subsidiary organizations, which were to be much …

… the Russias.” Services in Moscow capped a series of events commemorating the Romanovs’ tercentenary, in what proved to … memory of Mikhail’s Russia, he did so at great peril to the future of his country and its people. Immersing himself in a … deemed oppositional, the tsar brusquely cut him off. He welcomed supplicant peasant elders, but Kostroma was part of a …

… chemists had worked to find an organizing principle that encompassed all of the known elements and that could be … characteristics—they were largely inert and resistant to combining with other substances—but the entire set fit … students. The majority of these tables look fantastical in comparison with the castle-like table that is found in …

… terrain. When the war did not progress as planned, military commitments escalated. America’s credibility had to be … analogy working in his favor, though, that is more compelling than all of the so-called “lessons of the past” presently being bandied about. It concerns the West’s response to the …

… into law on April 3, 1948. The Marshall Plan, as it’s more commonly known, was intended to revive the economies of … Policy Planning Staff, and the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee reported on the continent’s dire economic state, … Europe’s recovery. ERP efforts to create a German economy committed to capitalism, however, hardened early divisions …

… 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 …

… tacos increasingly brought these foods into the American diet. As Mexican immigrants arrived in new locales, various … States.  The popularity of these dishes and Mexican ingredients pushed Mexican cuisine into fast food with the … Powder  The food tradition of the American Southwest has come about through various populations’ contributions over …

… today as American leaders assess Osama bin Laden’s latest communication. Bin Laden’s audio-taped message offered both stick and carrot. The stick is the threat of future catastrophic attacks. The carrot is a proposed … when bin Laden goes, as the Soviet Union did after Stalin died. Acheson had developed a plan based on long-range …

… The prominent reformer, Martin Luther boasts the most complex legacy of his contemporaries because of how he … Roper is most concerned with those produced by the workshop of Cranach the Elder. Cranach made Luther the most … an age when noblemen had to prove their honour with their bodies.” Luther drew power from intellectual combat, while the …

… are uncertain. The only documentary evidence of the event comes from the journal of Plymouth Colony’s governor, Edward … that the historical evidence of Thanksgiving is not as compelling as the myths that cloud our memories. It’s too … Indigenous Communities …

… kingdom were convinced that the United States had become a base for terrorists. No one then actually used the … of Granada and Nicaragua. Foreign diplomats repeatedly complained to the State Department that their countries were … assaults. Just as the U.S. news media suggest Saudi complicity in the attacks of September 2001, so foreign …

… became the top trending hashtag on Twitter after the combination of smoke from Amazon forest fires, a weather … tribes had been destroyed, and the number of Nambikwara, studied by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, had been … Getúlio Vargas articulated a vision of the nation’s future dubbed the “March to the West” and proposed that the …

… that emerged in the ninth century around Kyiv. The medieval Primary Chronicle tells how, in 988, Grand Prince … (Roman Catholic) and Eastern (Orthodox) churches. Its bishops consecrated their own metropolitan, without the … in the Ukrainian Republic . By 1992, there were three competing Orthodox churches in Ukraine: the UOC-MP, a new …

… to question the authority of international governing bodies. His campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” is a … U.S. soldiers just as they were returning from overseas combat ( left ). The opening session of the League of … In his 1960 book, The Conscience of a Conservative, future presidential candidate Barry Goldwater rejected …

… The first ad had “1862” emblazoned across the top, accompanied by a photograph of President Abraham Lincoln.   … (1890), and Southern (Louisiana) University (1881).   It is commonly assumed that those 30,000 acres of federal land … to sell their share so quickly, if at all.   It is also commonly assumed that all land-grant colleges were created …

… too frequently heard, “if only you were white,” as a compliment to their skills, but also as a reality check that … him “one of the greatest pitchers of all time.”  The compliments were great, but they might as well have said, … four Black men made their way to the pros, including future Hall of Famer Larry Doby, who integrated the American …

… of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate … later, as well as the music festivals we see today. In comparison to today’s bloated ticket prices, admission for … she burst out onto the scene receiving incredible audience enthusiasm and critical reception. D.A. Pennebaker …

… "had the world at his feet—able to choose from a range of futures to make his mark on the world." Yet the son went off … even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, . … become comfortable with comfort. The Free Speech Coffee Shop Of course, alienation has not entirely disappeared in …

… nineteen, published the gothic novel Frankenstein. It has become a classic of English literature. Title page of the … her feverish story: ten days after her birth her mother died from puerperal fever, at seventeen she eloped with … wife, the following year her premature illegitimate child died shortly after being born and her half-sister Fanny …

… Socialist Congress meeting in Paris in July 1899. The comrades set the date in solidarity with organized workers … thousands of other laborers took part. More than 100 people died in the various clashes between workers and the forces … a sympathetic governor to Michigan. On December 30, 1936, shop-floor activists in General Motors Fisher Body plant No. …

… spy. Since then, as this list shows, espionage became more complex and increasingly valuable. The times change, but … Townsend, along with Washington, shared a secret code to communicate that Tallmadge devised. Townsend ran a coffee shop and joined a Tory militia to preserve his cover. He …

… fair to most Americans. After all, Fidel Castro was a Communist dictator. The United States had to open its doors to refugees from communism, Americans thought, or it could not claim moral … in the departments of history and interdisciplinary studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., and a …

… fire have long been questioned and debated, the academic community generally blames poor circumstances for Rome’s … fear that enveloped Rome.  The fire began in the cramped shops, emblematic of Roman urban overcrowding. The rickety … from his imagination.  Tacitus, ever the skeptic in comparison, posited a different conclusion. In the absence …