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… concerns. Whether subduing Iraq and Afghanistan, combating sex trafficking, restricting nuclear weaponry or … dictator Augusto Pinochet, who was visiting London for medical attention. Now a foreign official could take action … initiatives. Considering the alternatives, even the worlds’ most ardent go-it-aloners will have to yield. Joyce Appleby, …

… the crenellation of the rooftop and its turret exemplify a medieval military fortification. Its image illustrates postcards, coffee mugs and magnets commemorating this relaxed, yet urbane port on the Aegean … 160,000 residents in Thessaloniki. Sephardic Jews were the most numerically and economically significant group. 61,500 …

… process. What’s unusual is that conservatives are complaining about the Court at the same time they’re … friendly overtures, four right-wing justices — nicknamed the “Four Horsemen” by liberal commentators — proved … Republican Earl Warren surprised everyone by becoming the most liberal Chief Justice in history. Over the next sixteen …

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … universal human rights?   Cathy Rakowski  First and foremost, sexuality becomes a weapon, and attacks on sexuality … Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. And as …

… use history to justify their views. The problem is a common propensity to mangle the past to suit current needs, … who teaches at a church-related college. But I'm sure that most are more interested in having their answer to this question confirmed by historical data than in being confronted with a past …

… available Open Access for free download on the Cambridge website .  The Moderator of this event is Nicholas Breyfogle, … that of religion. Now the land is incredibly Baptist. The most recent, figures we have, which are from the Indian … its advocacy Michael Scott. And it was at a construction site. Which was exactly what I was working on. I was …

… Jr. was no mere dreamer. As the civil rights revolution’s most famous strategist and self-proclaimed “symbol,” King stood at the forefront of a mass … forcing politicians to make hard choices and progressive commitments. Democratic candidates have recently been …

… efforts include improving security at Russian nuclear sites, which are considered vulnerable to theft. The Bush … Soviets. The Stockholm Conference of 1986 established on-site inspection of Soviet military activities. This set in … weapons. A breakthrough on this critical issue could come as part of an overall commitment toward deeper, …

… by the current course of events. With the help of esteemed scholars, each season will re-construct the history of a … at home, this was not the case for the majority of women. Most women still worked, sometimes they still worked in the … Oranjudio. Song and Band information can be found on our website and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …

… "For insight into the complicated and complicating events ... , one needs … current event. Our readers are from every continent and almost every country on the planet. And Origins keeps growing. … The final goal of Origins is to make us all more informed, engaged citizens. As the American philosopher John …

… is over. There will be celebrations, and peace will be welcomed by the ordinary people of Ulster. But as the great Irish … no intention of stopping because of the peace agreement. Most dangerously of all for hopes of a permanent peace, the …

… campaign, he’s already done something that most candidates can only dream about. He’s rewritten a part … our more prominent pundits have actually repeated, and thus compounded, the movie star’s error. The bogus quotation … professional career and economic views would understand immediately how preposterous it is to attribute such an …

… Carter. By giving him this honor at this time, the Nobel Committee seized the opportunity to express its concern over … initiated toward Iraq. Both the timing and the citation accompanying the prize hinted at more than Carter's undisputed … White House Carter has persistently promoted democracy and mediation, and monitored elections that facilitated …

… were Bollywood films. In recent decades, Bollywood has become popular across the world with sizeable audiences in … India (1957). Mother India tells the story of a woman named Radha, played by Nargis, whose husband leaves her as a … relationship. Released in 1960, Mughal-e-Azam was the most expensive film ever made in Hindi cinema at the time. …

… Fidel Castro is not exactly welcoming the new president of the United States with open … anti-Communist: Richard Nixon. But Nixon surprised almost everybody by visiting China and meeting with its … Clinton, after all, opposed the war in Vietnam, had visited Russia in the 1970s, and had close ties to China — …

… this week, Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proclaimed that Iranian nuclear development had left the realm of … politics and nuclear technology can be separated. Today, most people know the IAEA as the UN’s “nuclear watchdog.” … to end the arms race and proceed toward “general and complete disarmament.” Nuclear weapons states pledged not to …

… President Bush will spend most of this month at his ranch in Crawford, Tex. By fleeing … view of wartime Washington. On most mornings, Lincoln commuted into the city, but during hot summer months his … Soldiers’ Home and talked with disgruntled soldiers. He visited the wounded. Yet those sometimes painful interactions …

… claim being made lately about the ever-advancing Computer Age. After all, cyber-data is easier to store, … Europe, the printing press affected book production in ways comparable to how today’s computer is transforming … means “writing by hand.” Yet printed books did not immediately supplant manuscripts; they were still being copied …

… and mathematical calculations.  Initially, he focused on comet and meteor predictions, but he later turned to … team of human computers—individuals (often women) who performed complex computations—a practice later highlighted in the … in 1978 and detected Pluto’s atmosphere a decade later. Most dramatically, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft offered a …

… than a year away, President Bush must justify something most Americans detest: a seemingly endless string of … on “the near absence among the men I worked with… of any comprehension of what Nazism meant.” Commentator Dwight … An official survey of Army Air Corpsmen in 1944 confirmed these impressions. A top Air Corps official explained …

… too crude for refined readers. Twenty years later, critics complained that the characters were poor role models. By the … In the 1950s, J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” inflamed censorious adults who were afraid their children might … suffered from such a ludicrous backlash. Censorship was mostly dormant until the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. …