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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 …
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 …
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 …