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Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… think of humanitarian crises as forces of nature, droughts, plagues, crop failures. All of these, we assume, are the … is a form of Islam. Salafi Islam that goes back Salafi meaning going back to the tradition. Traditional Islam also …
Vladimir Putin seated and surrounded by military officers

World War II Memory in Putin's Russia

… between Soviet and Post-Soviet War Commemoration, Soviet meaning the period up to 1991, post-Soviet, the period after … and that is why does World War II commemoration still hold meaning for the Russian population? It has now been over 77 … in neural networks, changes that require rehearsal and meaningful association. So, in other words, this …
Statue of Sancho Panza in Madrid, Spain

Kindred Spirits: Shakespeare and Cervantes in Life and Death

… human. We empathize with them because they are characters plagued by contradictions, just like we are: they are caught … began to circulate in Madrid, in manuscript form, in 1604, meaning it was probably being written just as Shakespeare …
Lt. Cmdr. Raben Talvo (left), and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Angela Ramirez (right) administer the San Diego Naval Medical Center's first monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment to a COVID-19-positive patient, January 26, 2021.

The Rhyme of History: What the Black Death tells us about COVID-19’s Aftermath

… introduction. Caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis , the plague emerged in central Asia in the 1330s, spread west … kings of Europe collapsed entirely. By some estimates, the plague cut Europe’s GDP in half. As Ranulf Higden wrote in … the panic was temporary. Although London was gripped with plague, new officials were appointed to fill vacant …
A Memorial to the "Forgotten War" of Korea with the insignias of the United States Uniformed Services ringed around it.

Forgotten War, Tragic Peace

… of casualties and decimated a whole nation, and the altered meaning of peace were so soon forgotten. The fear of change …
Maurycy Gottlieb - Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur.

Yom Kippur: A First Step to Peace

… millennia. In each historical era, the day has taken on new meanings. All of those meanings are now reflected in the Jewish community’s … of violence. In the 19th century, Yom Kippur took on new meanings that reflected this tension between national …
a woman at a witch trial. she is wearing white and has her arms up in air with lightening bolts coming out of them. A judge, lawyer and an audience of people look on.

What was Wrong with the Judges at the Salem Witch Trials?

… he can do. It's called the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Meaning listen and determine and it's a type of court that … is quite a large literature and it's a very effective and meaningful literature. And we have learned a lot from that. … the conditions of the apology which might mitigate its meaningfulness. She was it, it's 14 years. I think it's …
The hazards of an enclosed work environment – a typist with cloth mask during the influenza pandemic in 1918.

The Respirator and Cloth Mask

… Cloth was used for makeshift masks during the Third Plague pandemic in China in 1911. Evidence showed that cloth covering could prevent the spread of the pneumonic plague through coughs. The Spanish Flu of 1918 saw wide use …