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… reward for reasonable risk. We're talking about the dot-com industries of the '90s, aren't we? Not this time. We're … Texas longhorns actually got fatter as they grazed their way to Kansas and points north. Like our own era, it was a … Stock Growers Association offered sumptuous facilities to visiting owners, much as dot-com owners living on venture …

… of the German Army moved out of their encampments and into combat. It was the beginning of a war over the future of … across Europe, especially for Poles, and conditions the way many there respond to current events. Shelled by the … days. Germany, Britain, France, and Poland are now bound together militarily, through the North Atlantic Treaty …

… social justice,” the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 brought together a wide range of constituencies to protest the … seats in parliament. Morsi was the winner of Egypt’s first competitive presidential election, but his government was … Both ‘Abduh and Amin stressed the superiority of Western ways and advocated raising the level of education of …

… with cholera in the 19 th century offers important insights for the COVID-19 world today, especially on the importance … began in 1817 and continue to this day, cholera ravaged communities and strained political and economic orders … beef industry and national government. Exporters banded together to demand the Argentine government put pressure on …

… and destroying dozens of refining mills and carrying away numerous houses. Hundreds of unsuspecting inhabitants, … structures made from this earthen material were common throughout the Andes, and they were generally … The great “machine” of Potosí, as seventeenth-century visitors called it, was powered by seasonal precipitation, …

… Project ]. Canada’s Houses of Parliament (its House of Commons and the Senate chambers) sit on the unceded … to this day). Yet in practice Canada has found all sorts of ways to cut off pieces of them, or to lease them out to … is it about us that you [Canadians] don’t like?” “I want to get rid of the Indian problem” and the Question of Genocide …

… orchestrated. Governor Andrew Cuomo and the medical community praised Lindsay. She was a healthcare hero . Lindsay was also a reminder of the ways in which ideas of race and the practice of medicine … little regard for Black lives . “This is how Black people get killed when you send them home and they don’t know how …

… of living, demonstrators soon widened their criticisms to encompass the full impact of Bashir’s three decades in power: … Henry and Eric Michael Rhodes discuss this pivotal moment for Sudan with two experts on Sudanese history and politics: … All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram , Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story , …

… programs. These recent developments no doubt bring comfort to some. But we can't rest easy. The dangers of … weapon-free zone treaty. Many obstacles stood in their way. Some nations disagreed on how or when the treaty should … would take time to develop and implement. They were wise to get started in 1963. Patient diplomacy was required to bring …

… power was a green technology and one of the most promising ways to slow global warming through carbon-free electricity … industry representatives, but many environmentalists have come to see nuclear power as key to end world dependence on … After all, any construction project that goes years over budget will require more labor and capital inputs, fuels, …

… Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Jim McGreevey: they all blur together. Gary Hart’s derailed 1987 presidential bid seems … be eclipsed by the next scandal before too long. If we’re becoming a more liberal society, shouldn’t there be fewer and … Prostitution is not illegal in all states — nor has it always been prohibited. Indeed the campaign to criminalize …

… 24, 1947, Arnold was flying over Washington State on the way to an air show in Oregon. He had taken a brief detour to … investigating reports of UFOs. To this end it instituted a comprehensive study of UFOs.  This study, known as Project … Study of UFOs UFO Study: Condon Group Finds No Evidence of Visits from Outer Space …

… developed projects to secure water for fruit orchards, vegetable farms, and afforestation under the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has conveyed “water, … the insatiable, bulldozing Israeli Water Company, found new ways to manufacture and control water. Mekorot  expanded …

… the Indonesian archipelago) and open a new trading route for Spain. A modern replica of the Victoria , one of the … Spain controlled the Americas. By 1515, then, the only way for Spain to access the luxury goods available in the … in, some of them to work off debts. Magellan’s second-in-command was the Spanish overseer and accountant, Juan de …

… For millennia, dams have played a central role in human life … are being built in Brazil and China, while campaigns to decommission dams are gaining traction in the United States … a look at human dams across history to reflect on the many  ways that humans have chosen to engineer their rivers and …

… small town of Wittenberg, Germany, in 2017, it is easy to get the impression that the 500 th anniversary of the start … the course of Christianity and western civilization. Commemorative Playmobil figure of Martin Luther. But to stop … stability rather than endless civil war had to find a way to institutionalize some level of religious …

… were killed. Nine others were wounded. With that, the forces of order in the United States had launched a shooting … a fourteen-year-old girl invariably described as “a runaway” and who thereby symbolized the fraying of the … antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone …

… when asked about the U.S. administration’s vocal support for the beleaguered opposition to the Venezuelan government, … century, officials sometimes demonstrated a broad commitment to republican and democratic principles. For … as the sole remaining superpower is both – but in different ways. It has become more interventionist in the war on drugs …

… 13.77 billion years ago, our entire observable universe was compressed into the size of a peach and had a temperature of … something like the size of an atomic nucleus, the physics gets a little wonky. That said, we have good reason to … to resemble: stars, galaxies, vast stretches of Midwest-highway boredom. It seemed as if the universe had put its …

… of psychedelic exploration . The Summer of Love marked the coming out party for the counter-culture we now associate with the 1960s, a … we want to believe what Paul McCartney said—that it’s getting better all the time —that fifty years later we …