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… Bush’s refusal to send bills back to Congress helps account for the rapid growth in non-discretionary spending and the … to special interests. Not surprisingly, pundits immediately coined this measure the Corporate Pork Bill. Rather than … York College in York, Penn., and a writer for the History News Service. …

… port of Piraeus, just outside Athens. Our trip to Greece coincided with an especially chaotic period in the refugee … one day after the author's arrival. ( United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees ) We came to Greece with only a … Hisham, for example, were two Iraqi boys who often came to visit us while we were serving tea. Both fourteen, they had …

… American life, and in his farewell address to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … $7.5 trillion on nuclear weapons, but when he takes us to visit warehouses full of mothballed tanks, Koistinen points …

… survive in a changing world. The movie revolves around a visit by King George V and Queen Mary to Downton Abbey. George V’s reign marked a tumultuous time for Britain that witnessed not only the calamity of the … its effects: “My maid was rather curt with me, but she is a Communist at heart.” Mounted police clear demonstrators from …

… is, and used this argument to weaken the campaign finance reforms passed after Watergate. One of the justices even coined the shorthand phrase by which this argument is now … rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s …

… outside deck to get my first look at Cuba, a country that for so long seemed almost fictional. The United States’ … of Florida, yet American citizens have been restricted from visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the … the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: …

… horizons of empathy,” quickly became the dominant priority for people under German occupation. His conclusion, finally, … phases of the war affected daily life. Gossip about the latest news of the war mattered to people trapped in the … German soldier. Fritzsche is particularly interested in comparing the French and Polish accounts about sharing space …

… in Arlington National Cemetery were not even permitted to visit the grave sites of their relatives after the Civil … the national holiday from its pedestal. Memorial Day commemorates the men and women killed on the battlefield or … Memorial Day Parade was organized in Washington, D.C., to coincide with the dedication of the World War II Memorial. …

… became a target of Scottish missionaries, who paved the way for the launch of official colonization in Malawi in 1890s. … Livingstonia in honor of his mentor. The Gordon Road People visiting Livingstonia travel on the Gordon Road, named after … to drive. During the rainy season, the road's stones become very slippery, making transportation difficult. The …

… rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … But is the comparison valid? In fact there are noteworthy coincidences between the two controversies. Both MacArthur … "his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." He visited New York City, where 7.5 million people gathered to …

… U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … of the Great Depression, when entitlement to public funds coincided with a sense of national belonging, policymakers … circumstances, wishing to return home. Eleanor Roosevelt visits Hungarian Freedom Fighters in Salzburg, Austria, …

… the violence had already begun. But the worst was yet to come. Saturday’s rally was scheduled to start at noon, but … white supremacy. Installing Confederate monuments coincided with the rise of Jim Crow, a legal, political, and … in Georgia. A view of the carvings on Stone Mountain, the visitor center, and the surrounding park ( left ). A …

… Welcome to Prologued ! Prologued is a serial podcast from … be found on our website and we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations ot background … it into a vehicle which will organize a massive march to coincide with the first inauguration of President Woodrow …

… how to remember the past. More than a simple residence for millions of Germans, it also contains a tumultuous … dot the landscape and stand beside opera houses and statues commemorating prominent figures of German cultural heritage. … gradually become taller and more imposing the deeper the visitor wanders into the center. Berliners respect what the …

… present in the Alexander legends. The Egyptian tradition, for example, credited Nectanebo, the last historical pharaoh … birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … Persia. The Jewish and Arabic traditions relate Alexander's visit to Jerusalem and his founding of cities. In the Jewish …

… of scientific knowledge, and of political power. For the Mayan Empire, centered in modern Southeast Mexico, … Itzá, one of the central and sacred sites of the empire, visitors can both see and hear representations of two … Site. It stands as a vast historical source that enables visitors to glimpse the spiritual world, the scientific …

… Sometimes the coincidences of history are uncanny.  On Sunday, September … Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the combination of new technology with the "classically liberal" … money" of the gold standard, created the conditions for a worldwide boom in investment and production.  The …

… Trump held up Carrier, an air conditioning and heating company, as a symbol of the plight of American … Trans-Pacific Partnership ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to the state for a fundraiser. The figures depicted … representatives obliged. These economic circumstances coincided with a geopolitical crisis: the dawn of the Cold …

… perpetually moving Nazca tectonic plate, the islands were formed through repeated volcanic activity. Layer by layer, … devoid of animal or plant life. This initial isolation, combined with its location at the confluence of three … that strikes me with wonder.” Even before Darwin’s visit, however, human beings had begun to shape the …

… very heart of the case. In amicus curiae briefs submitted for U.S. v. Windsor , children were a central focus in both … of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere—organizations that had come out of gay-father activism of the 1980s—wrote a brief … from their ex-spouses in order to keep their children or visitation rights. There were still dangers involved in …

… storm which these swells...told us in unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather Service (NWS) is trusted to provide timely warnings for hurricanes to the residents of the United States. But … , while railroads brought the Texas cotton crop and summer visitors alike. But the city was built on a barrier island …

… party rule") similar to the sort that had preceded the DPP for decades. The presidential election, held as always on a … is not quite as large as Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. It is also the second-most densely populated … Taiwan (where Ma grew up and went to college), Ma has never visited the Chinese mainland. After graduating at the top of …

… (Madras) in India. Madras was born in 1636, when East India Company official Francis Day signed a treaty with the Nayaka … overlooking the Bay of Bengal. Madras was an odd choice for a city because it had no existing port for trade, and … he chose to settle the EIC where he could be near her and visit her frequently. Nearly four centuries later, the EIC …