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… 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. …

… 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 …

… men are…” This remark by Elizabeth I sums up perfectly the heart and soul of Mary Queen of Scots (2018). The film … This is also a story of the sixteenth century when female monarchs were a new phenomenon in Europe. The sixteenth century was ushered in with Isabella I of Castile securely on the …

… Russia’s cooperation with the Kurds of Iraq and Syria in the fight against ISIL has … these pleasant tidings with the curious Yazidis, the poet was relieved to find that they were far from being the … melody “at three in the afternoon and worked until two AM.” When it was performed at a dress rehearsal the following …

… Yet another generation of moviegoers and read-to children have been … of new fans and their parents know that Theodor S. Geisel was born one hundred years ago this month. Who? While most … through his pursuit of industrial wealth. Similarly, when we’re “off to great places . . . off and away . . .” …

… The juxtaposition of laughter and tragedy in the Charlie … have missed, however, is that the January 7 th attack was by no means the first time that extremists have murdered … and murdered in September 1995, while Dorbane died when a bomb that militants had placed near the offices of …

… December 7th marks the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Few … and the United States came to the Pacific in late 1941 was of little surprise to any knowledgeable government or … attack, gloomily evaluated Japanese chances for success when he declared to the Japanese prime minister, “In the …

… Saber-rattling between the current U.S. administration and the North Korean regime … various reports but no permanent organization, and there was little urgency to do much more. Then in August 1949, the … “shell” such as a wooden desk, wall, or in a ditch when they saw the flash of an atomic bomb. It was the bomb …

… On November 4, 1924, voters elected the first woman governor in the United States. While two … Primary election earlier that year, which at the time was but a technicality (Texas was largely a one-party … governors were reelected at the end of their first terms. When Ross reran for office in 1926, she was no longer …

… Musicals are the quintessential American dramatic art form, combining … historical characters from folklore. One of the most famous was Evangeline, or The Belle of Acadia, and was based on … cement the relationship between New York and the theater, when his administration founded a public school to train …

… sat down to write his autobiography. Had he finished it, the book undoubtedly would have been filled with the friends … Christian pacifism. But he never finished the book. Muste was a busy man, and there was always a world that needed redeeming. When he died ten years later, scores of mourners, from New …

… The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 … - understood that a new type of transnational organization was needed to face problems that respected no national … individuals, organizations, and nations in crisis, how and when the right to human dignity first became inalienable." …

… This lesson plan looks at the United States today and the current issue of unemployment. Our lesson plan follows … board.  This answer will be the standpoint that they take when writing a letter in the following class period(s) to …

… What is the internet? Is it a technological godsend? Is the internet … to bear on people’s lives in new and remarkable ways. When the Union Pacific met up with the Central Pacific at … very few. What the technology titans did with their wealth was not at all clear or foreordained. Like the internet, the …

… The biggest story in this year's otherwise uneventful … non-Protestant president — let alone a non-Christian one — was enough to cause panic among many Americans. When John F. Kennedy ran for office in 1960, he had to …

… In the heyday of the Robber Barons in the 1870s Cornelius … more of the kind of radical changes the New Deal instituted when it established the Securities and Exchange Commission … and stimulate economic growth, since private enterprise was inherently good and the public sector was inherently …

… Last spring, when President Clinton raised the question of whether the United States should formally … be a blockbuster. Why the idea of a slave memorial on the Washington Mall is becoming more popular. And why the …

… More than any other event of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, … it became a model of revolutionary political change that was followed throughout the world from Europe, to Haiti , … , Russia , and East Asia . And it all began one July day when the people of Paris captured a fourteenth-century …

… Quentin Morton’s Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East , serves as a concise, easy-to-read … beginning with European exploration up to 1971, when all Middle Eastern states had obtained independence. … a more disparaging social structure. The oil industry was one in which jobs were given primarily to Europeans and …

… Origins editor and author Steven Conn talk about cities of the past and the future on WOSU's All Sides with Ann Fisher .     "In 2009 we saw a 'first' on Earth. That’s when the scales tipped, and more people lived in urban than …