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… According to the opponents of gay marriage, the Nov. 18 Massachusetts … the state kept out of the nuptial bed. On those occasions when couples decided to seek recognition for their union, it was from the clergy, not the government’s fee collector. In …

… This year marks the 500-year anniversary of the pricking of one man's … Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, which was published during his lifetime (c. 1484–1566). Through … European empires paid little attention to this moral idea when so much wealth and power was at stake. This …

… a.m., October 23, 1983, a massive explosion ripped through the barracks of the battalion landing team (BLT) of the 24th … and one Lebanese custodian were killed in the attack. It was the greatest single-day loss of life for the Marine … Muslims, the Maronites objected to their presence. When violence broke out in 1975 after an unidentified gunman …

… by the Soviet Union’s ethnic patchwork. The watershed event was the three-day coup in August 1991. Gorbachev was on … forestall the referendum, among these Gorbachev himself and Leningrad mayor Anatoly Sobchak, who had among his protégés … looming the White House had no choice but to cut bait when it became clear that events in the Soviet Union were …

… Is something odd happening to the American economy?        Alan Greenspan, chairman of the … on the short-term market. The problem is the same as it was for railroad executives in 1860 or industrialists in … the do-nothing administration of George Bush). So when Speaker Newt Gingrich talks about “techno-frontiers” …

… Why’s that? Because the Democratic convention in Denver has the potential to … briefly with making the process more democratic. It was during that experiment, in 1976, that Washington … able to abide by legitimately achieved majority rule, even when the margin of victory was razor-thin. Superdelegates …

… Intercollegiate sports had inauspicious beginnings.  The first college football game was played at Rutgers University in the fall of 1869. The … context of ringers and violence that the NCAA was founded. When at least 18 college football players died and as many …

… James Fenimore Cooper, the pioneering author of  The   Last of Mohicans  (1826), was no stranger to adventure. As a youth, he served several … of the moment, experiencing with new eyes “the instant when I could first distinguish the blades of grass at my …

… Mid-July, 64 CE, in the heart of Rome , tragedy struck as fire erupted into a … Referencing the mythical Greek Orpheus, Tacitus wrote, “when people looked back, menacing flames sprang up before … extent and the firefighting techniques implemented. Tacitus was alive during the conflagration unlike Suetonius who was …

… even his Presidential bid, owe much to beauty pageants and the culture they have helped to create. Long before Trump … season past Labor Day, what this event really offered was a public referendum on women’s place in American life. … tune in once a year to rate women in their bathing suits when you can do so every day from your smart phone? Today, …

… Ernie Pyle sat above a newly constructed port in Sicily—the island near Italy's toe that Anglo-American forces had … eleven months later, the Sicily campaign—Operation Husky—was the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving an … it was also a war that shaped and was shaped by nature. “When we send an expedition to Sicily, where does it begin?” …

… For the past four years, the remote Sudanese region of Darfur … and Central African Republic. The population of Darfur was estimated in 2002 at about six million, eighty percent … of Darfur. The Mahdist state ruled the Sudan until 1898 when it was conquered by the Anglo-Egyptian armies. …

… Graffiti outside of the Belgrade barracks. I met Jamil in Subotica, Serbia, 15 … Serbia, and after nine failed attempts to enter Hungary, he was growing increasingly hopeless. Jamil is from Swat, … with thermal cameras and alarms that will notify guards when people are approaching. One fence severely restricted …

… During this political campaign, which has largely focused on the eye-glazing details of domestic issues, the most … that the Clinton administration had "played like there was reform" in Russia while corrupt Moscow officials … Bush team was too slow to provide substantial financial aid when it would have mattered most, for example, and Clinton …

… On August 21, 2019, #PrayForAmazonas became the top trending hashtag on Twitter after the combination of … resources to fight the fires, concluding that there was little it could do. August 22, 2019 tweet by French … First, however, let’s make it clear exactly what we mean when we use the term “the Amazon.” An animated NASA map …

… Percival Lowell was a prominent astronomer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who believed in the … had meticulously analyzed about one-quarter of the plates when he spotted a faint image flickering in and out of view. …

… Raise your hand if you watch the annual Oscar awards primarily for the fashion show, not … mimicked the look of women in ancient statuary. This style was popular throughout the First French Empire, 1804-1814, … for easy movement, often accentuated with fringe trim, when dancing the lively dances of the Jazz Age. 5. Body …

… fund every year at levels comparable to annual budget of the Pentagon? Answer: the non-profit sector. Olivier Zunz … and in return a small denominational college in New Haven was named after him. Benjamin Franklin helped found several … at one point, "but were subject to a host of legal hurdles when they attempted to desegregate them, assist in voter …

… From the Editors: 2014 was a year of tremendous and unfinished … an ailment of a generation of people: why did I survive when others died? Maybe I'm more base, more cunning, a … our way in life? What will we answer in a few years, when children want to know about 2014 and ask, "Why did …