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… my daughter, I wish you were a boy!” Whether he meant the comment as an affront or as a statement on the injustice … husband without losing custody of her children. They also comprised preventing her from receiving a good education and … life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.” Although Stanton did …

… into two separate, independent states. The violence that accompanied partition, which led to the death of up to a … India, Nehru insisted upon a united India that encompassed the entire subcontinent. The British meanwhile, … offer many explanations for why partition occurred. Some seek its underlying causes in the long history of …

… which plan to test the next generation of bombs on computers rather than under the ground. But who’s paying … to the final frontiers — space and the virtual realm of computer technology. They have a passionate booster in Donald Rumsfeld. The Air Force’s Space Command boasts that it can develop computerized satellites …

… Surely they know that nothing brings people together like a common enemy. But in the United States, the "rally round the … grow as the toll of dead Palestinian youth grows. Already, some Jews light the candles, not to celebrate Jewish power, … the presents and the pride are all mixed together in some beyond-the-rational part of our brain. When facts …

… Road.” In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson , provided what has become the enduring description of the Revolutionary War when … and behind houses, they had a hard time distinguishing non-combatants from the militia-men who were shooting at them—a … Those on both sides were nervous, uncertain, and tired. Some of the Americans were likely inebriated. Lexington …

… major headlines. China-watchers, journalists, and academics commemorated June 4—as the event is called for short—with … an estimated 180,000 people turned out for a vigil. The commemoration is organized yearly by the Hong Kong Alliance … the Umbrella Movement. In the street outside Victoria Park some held signs with its slogans, “I want true universal …

… terrain. When the war did not progress as planned, military commitments escalated. America’s credibility had to be … this misguided reference to history. Milosevic was troublesome, acknowledged the critics, but the Serbian dictator was … analogy working in his favor, though, that is more compelling than all of the so-called “lessons of the past” …

… of independence. And, for many, knowing where your food comes from, intimately, down to the moisture of the soil, … easy for things to get lost in all this new regulation. In some markets, radiologists released contaminated produce … And where in the world would Soviet suppliers find the extra food stocks to feed four million people who had …

… starting to remake Maxwell Motors into his future Big Three company. In 1922, there was one registered passenger car or … of a car (or two) in every driveway.   From Keystone Cops comedies to contemporary movie chases to sophisticated art, … technology. We’re simply maintaining the status quo until something better comes along.   Some sort of American …

… in a stalemate with Axis troops north of Rome. With a commanding view of the narrow approach to the Po River … the men of the 10th Mountain Division proved themselves in combat. With an audacious single-file night climb up the … fight on foreign soil.  Similarly, both units felt they had something to prove by fighting in Italy.  For the 10th, it …

… damaging sanctions against the Russian state, its companies, and its citizens. The sanctions were intended to … one of the most visible effects of sanctions to date, major companies left Russia. Multinational giants such as … from the country or indefinitely halt operations. In some cases, these enterprises have been sold to the Russian …

… industry representatives, but many environmentalists have come to see nuclear power as key to end world dependence on … years.” The bill instructs the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to speed licensing of nuclear power plants … to do so have not been allocated. Ten early U.S. stations, some dating to early 1960s, have been fully decommissioned. …

… the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: … by a domino-theory fear that tiny Cuba would bring about communist revolutions throughout the hemisphere. It wasn’t … be one of the last U.S. cars imported to the island, and some of the more prominent private business leaders fled the …

… ceasefires in 1949 and 1956, they failed to resolve the complex underlying Arab-Israeli controversies over … that officials in the multi-layered U.S. government communicated a range of messages including some statements that were construed by Israeli leaders, who …

… Johann Georg Kohl, cartographer and geographer, to come to the United States where he worked for the Coast … the role of historic maps in the classroom, so we can extrapolate that many of those who attended public school … metadata, and magnification. Because of their format, some works lose their visual impact in the scaled down, …

… and development. Latin America is a vast region comprising 33 individual countries in the southern half of … its “strong, consistent pro-United States strategic and commercial biases and interests.” Other authors consider … to fund their efforts against President/dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, turning to Socialist International and Third …

… had obtained independence. Morton tracks major individuals, companies, and governments taking part in the search for … the region’s nationalist movements. While Morton points to some of these effects, he minimizes the impact “divide and … company was not overly distracted from the main business of extracting and exporting oil” (50). Such examples of …

… iconographer, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., that he hopes someone is busy getting it all down. The hint was vintage … himself. Which won’t be so bad. Obama’s already an accomplished memoirist. He evidently prefers to be his own …

… As the economic crisis ripples through the world, some liberal commentators say that the only solution to it is a … relatively open, non-discriminatory exchange, which we have come to call "free trade."   Even before the United States …

… War will begin. The failed launch buys the United States some much needed time to revise its strategy for coping with … But in the Second Cold War, the United States will face incomprehensible foes that cannot be counted on to respond as … 2007 launch would have particular historical resonance, coming 50 years after the Soviet Union sent up the world's …