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… 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 …

… Pilot whales stranded on Farewell Spit, 2015. On 13 February 2015,  198 pilot whales stranded  in Golden Bay on the northern coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Hundreds of volunteers were mobilized by New …

… Join hosts Patrick Potyondy and Leticia Wiggins and their guests, historians David Brakke , Tina Sessa , and … first Jesuit to fill the job and the first pope from the southern hemisphere and the first from Latin America and the …

… 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 …

… States began its war against Iraq with a campaign of "shock and awe." An overwhelming demonstration of American airpower … designed to persuade the Iraqis to throw down their arms and surrender even while rising in revolt against Saddam … victory. His confidence cost Ferguson his life in the South Carolina forests at King's Mountain, where American …

… the historic election of 2008, a small group of historians and journalists was invited to the White House to chat and lunch with First Lady Laura Bush. Organized by the … the United Nations Literacy Decade, fighting AIDS in Africa, and bringing breast care awareness to the Middle …

… the historic election of 2008, a small group of historians and journalists was invited to the White House to chat and lunch with First Lady Laura Bush. Organized by the … the United Nations Literacy Decade, fighting AIDS in Africa, and bringing breast care awareness to the Middle …

… 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 …

… by weather, criticism, or the economy. Fifty-eight thousand Americans received termination notices last December (56 … In the months since, AT&T, Chase Manhattan, Raytheon and Boeing alone announced cuts totaling more than 30,000 … Take, for example, the case of William Myers, who joined Southern California Edison in 1971, after his father, also …

… Pyle sat above a newly constructed port in Sicily—the island near Italy's toe that Anglo-American forces had invaded … with Allied troops across the Mediterranean from North Africa. Before D-day in Normandy eleven months later, the Sicily campaign—Operation …

… Seventh Coalition, led by the British Duke of Wellington and Prussia's Marshall von Blücher. This fateful encounter … doomed Napoleon's brief restoration as Emperor of France and preserved the balance of power that Europe's traditional … bicentennial of the battle, which took place some ten miles south of Brussels. However, these plans were stymied by the …

… of Joseph I. Lieberman as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. Almost every American president or vice-president … But the real story here is not Lieberman's candidacy. The real story is that his nomination has not … ministers, especially in the religiously conservative South, had denounced Smith from the pulpit, and much the …

… a justifiable military response — harbored ambitious goals and expanded a local conflict into something larger. It didn’t work … from spiraling out of control. In 1982, Israel invaded southern Lebanon in order to raze Palestinian Liberation …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …