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… On October 31st more than 135 million voters went to the polls in Brazil to elect their next president. They … Dilma Rousseff of the leftist Worker's Party (PT), who was the hand-picked successor of Brazil's current president, … could borrow on international markets. By September 2002, when a Lula victory seemed likely, fears of default left the …

… The term “Third World” emerged in the 1950s to describe … of The Global Cold War (2005) by Odd Arne Wested, was the Third World properly situated in its Cold War … even as it sought economic resources from the Eastern socialist bloc, and Vanni Pettinà documents a similar …

… “We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing … ignorant. We must call this sort of behavior out when we see it. However, Santorum’s comments point to a much …

… On May 23rd 1951, the "Seventeen Point Agreement of the Central People’s … of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" was signed. This agreement legitimized claims of the … armed conflict over the borders, most recently in May 2020 when the PLA and the Indian army clashed in the Galwan …

… Illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (1887). … at the 2019 Hamilton Exhibition in Chicago. In 1804, when Burr began a campaign for governor of New York, … representing his faction in the election, his loss was also seen as a humiliation to the party as a whole. …

… Although the Olympics are intended to celebrate unity through sport, … gay games. Homosexuality in Russia Today The controversy was sparked by a new Russian law. In June 2013, the Duma … enables Russian observers to accuse the West of hypocrisy when Western critics attack Russian practice, an accusation …

… In April and May 2019, the world’s largest democracy held elections. More than 540 … the destruction of the Babri Masjid. An anti-Muslim stance was central to this process. Recent events in the state of … to “steal” bits of it. This ideology was clearly expressed when it came to the question of Kashmir. Central …

… Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian-American … dissatisfaction evident today. So we should not be shocked when Russian policymakers take actions against Western interests in the Middle East, or when Russian intellectuals and politicians whip up …

… “The man who doesn’t ask his country for even a handful of … in the mountainous Segovia region that borders Honduras, was a stirring nationalist document. In it, he rejected the … they would largely dictate for the next half-century. When the pattern continued in Panama’s war for independence …

… Writing in Slate in the early days of the Great Pandemic , Daniel Sarewitz … change or environmental poisoning, for instance—COVID-19 was compelling “people everywhere . . . to put their … was never episodic, even though there were moments when science seemed unnervingly supreme—the atomic moment …

… Following the recent arrest of al-Qaeda-linked conspirators planning … fascism, at least in its most familiar German incarnation, was a genocidal, totalitarian movement, Bush's comparison … the current situation. Fascism in Europe was destroyed when the states it ruled were occupied and their governments …

… with Russia make one wonder if this is just a pause in the fighting. Will the U.S. continues its propaganda war … Each side made concessions. Until the crisis, Kennedy was a militant cold warrior, promoting military buildups and … authorized the president’s use of “armed force” in Vietnam. When Johnson introduced hundreds of thousands of U.S. ground …

… Welcome aboard the train, British History ! In preparation for our … Nonetheless, please remain seated otherwise, specifically when the train teeters near the cliff-edge of World War Two … nuclear debates, and war; and the Conservative Party that was in power from 1979 to 1997 has done nothing to curb this …

… from American corporations have continued unaffected by weather, criticism, or the economy. Fifty-eight thousand … Give your life to IBM and it will take care of you, was the understanding. Job security first became a central … were barely half those in other occupational sectors. When Myers’s father urged him to accept a white-collar …

… Yeongju, a city in South Korea, is famous as the historic home of the Seonbi, Confucian scholars who … active today. With more than 1,000 years of history, it was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 and … as alleviating hunger. Ganghakdang in Sosu Seowon. When entering Sosu Seowon, the first building that visitors …

… To describe the life of Brigham Young requires a mastery of subtlety and … painted nineteenth-century Mormonism as culturally deviant, when situated amongst the diverse milieu of utopian, … and thus encouraged civilizing missions as long as it was convenient.  However, when conflicts arose between …

… The decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland ought to … occurred in 1798 and the present IRA’s campaign since 1969 was unveiled. Many republicans — including most of those who … without precedent in Ireland. But are precedents relevant when lives are at stake? Moreover, politicians should be …

… “Undoubtedly there is something in the Slavic nature which predisposes … of some kind, and a chimney or smokehole…. The only exit was the smokehole, or in the finer habitations, a window. … Thirty Years War stands as a testimony to what can happen when political acrimony, religious intolerance, and …

… Blom's explicit aim in writing this book is to rehabilitate the historical reputation of the overlooked radical … argues that Holbach's most important contribution, however, was hosting the most radical of salons in his Paris home.  … them of betrayals and conspiracies to humiliate him.  When Holbach sends him a gift of his favorite wine, Rousseau …

… Which Martin Luther King Jr., will we honor this year?  The Southerner who … the Jim Crow system of racial segregation. That work was only the first part of his career, however. As terribly … the world. This is a vital part of his legacy to us. Even when the United States was engaged in war, he refused to …

… With 2002 drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players … ghosts of a mythic southern past became the glorious, whitewashed heroes. By the end of the nineteenth century, these … the weakness of this attempt during his Pascagoula apology, when he turned from his earlier admiration for …

… On March 12, 2011, an explosion rocked the towns of Futaba and Okuma in Fukushima, Japan, but few … fields, and tore chasms through the asphalt streets. But it was a human-made disaster at the nearby nuclear power plants … materials for peaceful purposes would grow to the point when both sides would dismantle weapons to provide fuel for …

… “Bollywood” is the name that the Anglophone press in India gave to … to their children but to land and the country. Mother India was released ten years after India’s independence from the … time. The production budget for a single song, “Why Fear When You Are in Love,” was almost as much as the budgets for …