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… of a Giant Sequoia trunk from Tuolumne Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, showing AD dates of fires (photo … sampled giant sequoias from five groves between Yosemite National Park and Sequoia National Park, far enough apart that individual fires could …

… herald the latest revolutionary cycle, defining the transnational twenty-first century. Although the heralds of the … First, the Combination Acts (1799 and 1800) outlawed unionization, branding organized labor as sedition. The 1812 … Chartist reform, while encouraging the foundation of trade unionism. Of course, we can easily overstate the ideology of …

… alliance railway, the United States, and our nemesis, the Soviet Union , this train continues its ascent to the peak of … Global/Transnational …

… U.S.’s impression of Castro hardened when he took steps to nationalize U.S. corporations in Cuba, and drew the island into closer and closer alignment with the Soviet Union. As a result, the U.S. imposed a financial and … Diplomacy/International Relations …

… via Twitter]. From marble statuary employed by the white nationalist group Identity Evropa to the prominent display … to debunk the use of classical history by today’s white nationalists, we are swimming against a tradition that … to the characterization of a group at the Republican National Convention as “loud, unhappy, and dissatisfied …

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… system that they were the very first to secede from the Union. Edmund Ruffin, a transplant to South Carolina from …

… II , the U.S. government was increasingly sensitive to international criticism of domestic racial tensions, the … of World War II and the ideological battle with the Soviets rendered the “Gestapo tactics” of local police more … riots erupted in the Watts neighborhood in 1965. Drawing national media attention, the Watts riots and the brute …

… conservatism, the bulk of this stuff should be avoided. National Review editor Jonah Goldberg penned the above words … a whole. Citing women's participation in such groups as the National Federation of Republican Women and the Daughters of …

… out of touch before they leave. They’re like a bad national hangover: we liked what we drank last night, but we …

… also wanted to define a role for the United States in international affairs while increasing cooperation with the … rise to the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.   Today, the United States and … points of view in using natural resources and handling international relations. There is so far little chemistry between …

… So to start off, your organization, the ASCE, produces a national report card every four years. Can you briefly … The concept for that actually started in 1988 with the National Council on Public Works Improvement. They issued a … the moment when these infrastructure projects are seen as a national priority.   Dr. Clay Howard  One of the things that …

… accurately describes a myriad of issues, such as the Post-Soviet nostalgia in Crimea and eastern Ukraine that this … much of the unique intricacies of the Ukrainian and Russian national psyches that led to the war, that continue to … with Russia, 2) the vital, all-encompassing list of national reforms in which Ukraine must succeed, and 3) the …

… A similar effort in New York City in August made national headlines. What’s significant about the controversy … claims that its billboard campaign is intended to force a national debate on immigration policy. It is a serious …

… what that history kind of continues today. In an international perspective, particularly as an historian of … relationship with questions of the environment and international intervention, right. So in some ways that that … something that I would actually say in some ways that international pressure that the Earth Day kind of helped, help …

… chant, directed at Bashir: “Just fall — that’s all.” International observers have suggested that the uprising in Sudan … of least corrupt countries out of 175 by Transparency International. The rate of inflation is 63% and unemployment. … freely to the Arab League Summit, as well as the African Union Summit. The only time there was an attempt [was] when …

… a coup against the legitimate republican government. The Soviet Union supported the republicans, and volunteers from Europe …

… negotiating an end to weapons proliferation made the international organization a laughingstock. With a North Korean … with an eye to history, however, suggests that the international organization is working exactly the way its … peacemakers of 1919 by designing a framework for a new international order before the Second World War had ended.   The …

… even out-of-town hotel guests) to bring fire service up to national standards. The city and the county remain …

… to all inhabitants of Iraq without distinction of birth, nationality, language, race or religion.” Such a democratic …

… and social strife. On February 20, 2008, on a local National Public Radio station an "expert" said that the … but also greed, corruption, and a realpolitik in which international pressures have exerted significant influences. When … a one-party state dominated by the Kenyan African National Union (KANU) party founded by Kenyatta. They have held …

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… the Federal Housing Administration (FHA)—two parts of the National Housing Act of 1934—that the U.S. government began … more borrowers. The federal government created the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) in 1938, a unique … In 1968, the federal government spun off the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) from Fannie Mae. …