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… percent of surveyed cities have seen increases in the need for emergency food aid. These findings coincide with a … were struggling. They looked pale. The students were not getting enough to eat. This obviously had serious health as … the effect of child hunger in war-torn Europe, started a committee to bolster the existing national school lunch …

… spy-plane crisis. And the Japanese Prime Minister’s plan to visit a shrine honoring soldiers who died for his country … II has inflamed tension between China and Japan. When Bush gets to Beijing, however, one thing his hosts will have on … of more than $30 million (then an astronomical amount) as compensation to foreign powers for the damage caused by the …

… Gaul, or today’s Emilia Romagna—the statesman and accomplished general Julius Caesar crossed the little Rubicon … sole ruler of the Roman state . Caesar developed a template for a Roman autocratic rulership that would have appalled … of the Rubicon appears as an irreversible step on the way to the Roman Republic’s fall. The Rubicon—a Latin name …

… the continued relevance of the Old Testament and is unapologetic about its very Jewish character. Like much of Abraham Heschel's work, the Prophets was written not for a Jewish audience but for people of faith in general. … Nazi anti Semitism and racial ideology required one to overcome a number of intellectual hurdles. How could one accept …

… imagine this issue heating up any further, it is about to get red-hot. Earlier this year, the Court of Appeals for the … of future discussions of gun control for decades to come. It might even have an impact on the dynamics of the … rights models, making it hard to interpret. The best way to describe the original conception of this right would …

… by a massive drought. Millions were forced to flee their communities in search of food, but there was little to find. … relief. The media of that day, newspapers, helped to get the Russian appeal distributed across the country. Life-saving shipments of food were soon on the way to starving Russians.   Similarly, the current East …

… average citizens with no connection to crime have become victims of this policy —especially poor and young … use of militarization for territorial control, and the targeting of the poor and youth are nothing new in El Salvador … Rights Ombudsman. Family members have not been able to visit their loved ones, despite pleading with the …

… Eisenhower opened negotiations with the Soviets in a way that Adlai Stevenson, had he been elected in 1956, never … and Begin before him, has attacked others for doing and getting away with it. Begin is under great pressure from all … 1970 and think about predicting that Richard Nixon would be visiting China and Russia, tripling trade with both nations, …

… the Cold War was at its peak, and the Soviet Union had become Cuba’s patron, pouring billions annually into its … year Pope John Paul II changed the picture. In an historic visit to Cuba, he criticized the embargo, thus encouraging … associate of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, …

… liberation of Iraq, the White House tells us, is well under way. With Saddam Hussein’s regime destroyed, American forces will install a new representative government. … of Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz dared to undertake a comprehensive land reform campaign, nationalize corporate …

… power industry are saying.  But is it really over? The latest nuclear accident, this one only 87 miles northwest of … one-tenth of what the International Atomic Energy Agency forecast back in 1974.  France, the leading European user of … of 1989 in eastern and central Europe and the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union in 1991 brought an end to the …

… Every holiday season, at least for the last 70 years or so, the red and green plant that … Congress to honor the passing of Paul Ecke, Jr., who helped commercialize the plant in the United States in the middle … outcome of Spain’s surrender, he set the tone.  Next, he visited the estate of a wealthy Philadelphia merchant to …

… Crimea was absorbed into Russia, and what the future holds for Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula. ( Image Source ) … of moved into our second question here, which is a great segway. And so a lot of these recent events took many of us by … That in terms of the stability of Ukraine going forward, to get rid of this destabilizing source, and both in terms of …

… taken place across the Republic of Sudan. Protestors targeted the regime of Sudan’s longtime president, Omar … fully today’s popular protests, we need to look all the way back to the Sudan’s colonial past. Post-independence … coexisted with Egyptian schools, missionary schools, community schools, and Sudanese private schools. In the …

… how a century of drug wars fought around the world informs today's conversations about marijuana use, abuse, and … 2021, with new episodes airing every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts.  … Two is coming November 2, 2021. Subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts. …

… history, famous ghost stories, and the history of Broadway musicals. Most episodes, released roughly once a month, … history, from native New Yorkers to those who hope to visit one day.” You can find recent Bowery Boys Podcast … Boys Podcast also maintains a blog at boweryboyshistory.com , which serves as an additional resource for listeners, …

… scenarios for bumping menacing space debris out of earth’s way. But the even greater insight of this endeavor has been … event. With the aid of their testimony, scientists pieced together the following account. Artist Don Davis’ impression … they wanted to determine if a guest from outer space had visited. Yet their commitment to empirical research …

… and dangerous, amplifying the sense of tension and competition across Europe and strengthening the sense of … than military or strategic factors. The alliance has always needed to keep an eye on its internal political … allies reacted by tying Western Europe more closely together, including the western portion of Germany. But the …

… on brains. Undead and not quite living, where do zombies come from and why are they here? The story of our … placed on corporal punishment. The zombie developed as one way to represent the anxieties and fears of Haitians … , a malevolent ghost or spirit of the dead that brought together African, Amerindian, Dutch, and English mythologies. …

… never set. How did these backward ninth-century Europeans accomplish all this? The obvious answer is "science and … put: quantifying the world by numbers. The West brought together mathematics and measurement to record reality, and … it. And this brings us to clocks.   Clocks were the first way Europeans quantified the world. The chime of the town …

… Taras Shevchenko monument. Bullets had hit the great poet’s forehead. The pillar holding him up had been damaged by … all know that Shevchenko and other Ukrainian poets were always enemies of Russia. I really hope that people will … was, but we should keep this as it is now.” Learn More: The Complete Kobzar: The Poetry of Taras Shevchenko. Translated …

… disc jockey Alan Freed crowing “That’s Bill Haley and the Comets rockin’ and rollin’ you with ‘Shake, Rattle and … On March 20, 1915, one of the most influential, if largely forgotten, creators of rock and roll was born - Sister … music as not merely accompaniment for services but as a way to win souls for the Lord. Her later career would span …

… such as the United Kingdom contemplate leaving the EU altogether, the president of the European Council … its goals and structures in dramatic and unpredicted ways over the course of its existence: from a coal and steel … of the same recurrent dream that for ten centuries has revisited the peoples of Europe: creating between them an …