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… elite glacier-goggled “ski troops” rock climbing, skiing, and snowshoeing Colorado’s snow-capped peaks under heavy … fought as joint-combatants with an unlikely set of allies—South American soldiers of the  Força Expedicionária … “We had contact with Americans, British, and South Africans,” one Brazilian veteran wrote after the war, “and …

… On February 1, 2013, a suicide bomber killed himself and a security guard at America’s embassy in Ankara, Turkey. … example the bombings of American embassies in East Africa in 1998 and the attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Yet … Liberation Organization (PLO) in Lebanon. The Shiites of south Lebanon, already reeling from civil war, were caught …

… sidewalks, selling tomatoes, cucumbers, apricots, peaches, and berries of all kinds. Before the locavore, organic food … border of Ukraine, where the smoldering reactor was, south towards Kyiv, home to millions of people. They watched … tons of radioactive meat that had been rolling around the southwest railroad for four years. No one wanted the hot …

… of Americans facing unemployment, losing their homes, and racking up student loan debt, the idea of a struggling … to a handful of businessmen to connect the West and the South to the heart of the Union by rail. Oil and steel … people." Hayes campaigned for economic development of the South and currency stabilization, both of which he argued …

… to sour with remarkable regularity: in 1914, 1920, and, of course, during the Great Depression. A long stretch … lured more and more Americans off the farm. By the time the South fired on Fort Sumter, cities like New York, … transcribing the life stories of ex-slaves in the rural South. It is crucial to underscore, however, that Franklin …

… Map of the Old City in Jersualem. As it has for thousands of years, Jerusalem remains a place of where many … “The Cardo,” Jerusalem’s ancient main street, runs north-south, typical of ancient Roman cities, and now traverses … remind passersby of the Armenian genocide. Nestled in the southwest quarter of the Old City, the Armenian Quarter has …

… popular anger against elites perceived as distant from and antagonistic to the struggles of ordinary Americans—more … rural and small-town areas voted more like the white south, and major southern metros like Atlanta and Houston shifted blue. The …

… I stand at the bow of the ferry as the water of the White Sea … up on the coiled ropes lying on the deck, my feet stay dry and I look out with excitement at the outstretched sea in … about 100 smaller ones) in the White Sea not far to the south of the Arctic Circle. A center of Russian Orthodoxy …

… formats—it might seem like refugees are everywhere. Syrian and Eritrean refugees cross the Mediterranean, bound for … Rohingya refugees from Myanmar occupy camps in Bangladesh; and Honduran and Guatemalan refugees seek asylum along the southern border of the United States, to name just a few …

… recently been scarred by violence and remains trapped in a frozen conflict.  Tucked away in the South Caucasus near the frontiers of Russia, Iran, and Turkey, this gorgeous mountain land boasts stunning …

… it mean three-to-five-year lturists watched the heavens and built monuments to mark the vernal equinox, the first … a time of rejuvenated hope. The puebloans of the American Southwest marked the beginning of spring, and the other three seasons, by tracking the path of the …

… Instead, there were simply “the people living in the south-west of what has historically been Russian land [who] have called themselves Russian .” In his eyes, … States effectively took control of the Ukrainian government and economy after 1991, to the detriment of regional …

… In a critique of John Kerry’s presidential candidacy, Vice President Dick Cheney invoked historical … of America’s wartime leadership: Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Generals U.S. Grant, Dwight D. … issued for the protection of civilian property in the South, but Lincoln, always “sensitive” to the knowledge that …

… U.S. relations with key states of the Middle East, and resulted in territorial and political changes that remain consequential on this … Israel, in collusion with Britain and France, to secure its southeastern border by invading Egypt and causing the …

… has caused a stir in California, Minnesota, North Carolina and South Carolina by unveiling plans to put up anti-immigrant … immigration in the name of reform goes back centuries and relies upon two time-tested formulas, both of which are …

… involving Hubert H. Humphrey, the incumbent vice president, and Richard Nixon, his Republican opponent. This prospect … the October Surprise. The Nixon team beseeched the South Vietnamese to await a Republican victory and promised an ample reward. Talk of a conclusion to the …

… The movie centers on an M-4 Sherman tank nicknamed “Fury” and its crew of battle-hardened soldiers during the waning … driver; Trini “Gordo” Garcia, the Spanish-speaking gunner; and Grady “Coon-Ass” Travis, a bestial mechanic with a southern drawl. Their fifth crewmember, the assistant …

… from the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico migrated to southern California with four young daughters. The family caravanned up and down the state working the agricultural migrant circuit. That young mother was my grandmother, my abuelita.    My abuelita's stories about those …

… remodeled airport in Tashkent, the nation’s capital and a modern city of well over two million people. But to head to the architecturally magnificent and richly historic town of Khiva (formerly known as … from the mountains that surround the Ferghana Valley in the southeastern corner of the country. Horses pasture off in …

… December 11, 2018, marked the one hundredth birthday of Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn. Born in southern Russia thirteen months after the Bolshevik Revolution , the only son of a mother whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, …

… a large portion of Ukraine's cultivated agricultural land in the south, as well as blockading ports on the Black Sea, a significant amount of grain for export is stranded in Ukraine. Written by Ian M. Sheldon. Narration by …

… the 20 th century borders have been fought over, drawn and redrawn, and today the “integrity” of those borders in the face of … when examining the American West, certain parts of Africa and other places where borders don’t function as a …

… as if apologies are becoming a regular part of business and politics. Pope John Paul II apologizes for the Crusades, the Inquisition and the long tradition of Roman Catholic anti-Semitism. … Insurance Company will not be paying reparations to the African-American community. But is it really possible for …