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… June 4, 2015 at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park (Photo by the author) Last year, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the … dressed in black, and the street leading to Victoria Park was as usual a gauntlet of political parties and interest … of Social Democrats was jumping up and down and shouting. When I left three hours later it was the same refrain, …

… When our group of sixteen historians and geographers arrived on the banks of Russia’s Kama River on 11 July 2016 for an … travel and exploration. Naturalist Johann Gmelin (1709-55) was so captivated by the industrial sites of …

… school, 1946 Common Core is a set of voluntary standards in the United States for the public education system (K-12) … influence of big business. And debates are all to the good—when there isn’t any more debate, we’ll know we’re in … a federal mandate, Common Core is completely voluntary. It was this voluntary nature of the program, perhaps more than …

… In late 1969 the Nixon administration envisioned itself at a crossroads … group of advisers that the "real problem in [the] country" was not the burgeoning youth movement, but "rather [the] … the cultural forefront of U.S. society at the very moment when the country is facing a series of entrenched energy, …

… American historians, urging members of Congress to assume their constitutional responsibility to determine whether or … the okay to invade Iraq, but none has announced that it was time to stop amending the constitution by selective … United States, and of the Military of the several States when called into the actual service of the United States.” …

… operate social welfare programs — opened on Feb. 20. Behind the administration’s stated pious hopes for this project … welfare programs back to the 19th century. He argues that when private charities, mostly religious ones, gave help … and lust and idleness.” For most of the 20th century, this was called “blaming the victim.” Now the White House calls …

… The upcoming millennium is not just about computers; it’s … told an audience in Kingsport, Tenn., that the Antichrist was probably already alive and living among us: “[…]when he appears during the Tribulation period he will be a …

… Since the economic crisis we’re now in is being compared to the … quite an achievement given that the Great Depression was already three years deep by the time FDR was elected.   … chairman, Michael Steele, recently parroted this accusation when he tried to explain that the government never creates …

… On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, … had entered the conflict in April but the initial impact was negligible—the Army was comprised of just 120,000 men. … Peace negotiations continued until June 28, 1919, when the formal treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at …

… Claudia Alta Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson was a lady. A great lady, as my Republican mother has said. But “Lady” is a term many of us are uneasy … start; southern women of all classes and races know a lady when we see one. She combines a highly attuned sense of …

… her endorsement of former Republican Patrick Buchanan for the Reform Party’s nomination for president. Fulani’s … to appear on the ballot for president in all 50 States, when she ran as an independent in 1988, received 45 percent of the vote this summer when she ran for the Reform Party’s vice-chair. If politics …

… March 3, 1857 marked the unofficial beginning of the so-called Second Opium War … origins trace back to the late eighteenth century, when Great Britain’s acute trade imbalance with China, then … its nascent industrial revolution. A British trade mission was famously rebuffed by the Qianlong emperor (r. …

… "The legislature declares that the intent of this act is to … lawyers to press for school desegregation, which the NAACP was also seeking in a case that it had brought before the … immigration status-verification system to be employed whenever practicable by every law enforcement officer who, …

… October 30, 2019, is the 45th anniversary of the so-called “Rumble in the … Mobutu Sese Seko." For broadcasting purposes, the match was held at 3:00am. The fight was a major turning point in … defeat. Frazier continued to hold the title until 1973, when he lost it in a brutal two-round, six-knockdown bout to …

… Two months ago, Jacksonville was threatened with cancellation of its 2009 Veterans Day parade after the city council cut the parade’s funding. Only a firestorm … commemorate the 11th day at the 11th hour of the 11th month when World War I supposedly ended with the stroke of a pen. …

… Writing in the wake of the most bizarre election in modern American … the reins of the nation’s highest office. Morris shines when he relates little-known details about some of America’s … his case studies. Merely examining five actual presidents (Washington, William H. Harrison, Lincoln, Hoover, and …

… Journalist William Manchester's 1968 work, The Arms of Krupp , has long defined legacy the Krupp family … his family fortune, been stripped of all his rights and was removed from the list of merchants in Essen. 2 He died … change at moments of maximum advantage. For instance, when Krupp adopted the Bessemer Steel production process …

… On September 29, 2017, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage at the 68th International Astronautical Congress … by 2022 . Concept art for a SpaceX spacecraft on Mars. This was not the first time the technology entrepreneur had made … A. Cernan on the moon in 1972 ( left ). Mars in 2003, when it was only 34,647,420 miles from Earth—the closest the …

… In late December 1979—thirty-five years ago this month—the Soviet army entered Afghanistan to stabilize the … apartment buildings built beginning in the 1960s (when the Soviet Union began investing heavily in … and “at the same time the mold in which that society was to be cast.” The Soviet modernist architect Anatole Kopp …

… During the current popular uprising in Egypt, foreign … but after graduating the only job that he could get was delivering newspapers. Other young men said that their … boon for the effendia because it would require a large bureaucracy and create many new jobs for university …

… This month marks the first anniversary of the Parkland shooting, when a gunman killed 17 students and staff members at a high … of an individual’s right to possess firearms, the Amendment was rarely mentioned before the early 20 th  century. 3. The …

… In the fall of 1890, administration of the Pine Ridge … Americans from the sufferings imposed by the whites— that was spreading with fervor among the Sioux bands would incite … famed leader of the Battle of Little Bighorn, was killed when agency police attempted his arrest. Sioux bands feared …

… few weeks ago, John Kerry considered delaying acceptance of the presidential nomination until after the Democratic … exist for restoring excitement to the convention. One idea was to have Kerry allow the delegates to this year’s … of the country. The last open convention occurred in 1956, when Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson, …

… University's men's basketball coach Bob Knight, nicknamed "The General," for defying university officials and for … a "zero tolerance" policy against his angry rages. Brand was criticized for his rash act against a national … Their leadership style led them to defy higher authorities. When those above them in authority risked public criticism …