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… I am sure I am not the only foreigner to have ended up in an emergency room … poisonous cognac which – along with “third shift” vodka – was ubiquitous in the Russia of the 1990s. The doctor on … reason Russians have become so dependent upon alcohol. Whenever the state worries about the effects of alcohol on …

… 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 …

… The crash of Texas-based energy trading corporation Enron is … had lost their deposits, and the federal government was left with a multi-billion dollar cleanup. In the 1990s, … public panicked. People rushed to withdraw their deposits when they realized that overextended banks could not cover …

… 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 …

… The year 1917 went badly for the Entente powers ("Allies") … Wilson's terms to the fateful day of September 28, 1918 when Ludendorff suffered a nervous breakdown. Four factors … personal role...the fighting [would not] have ended when and in the circumstances that it did." 6 The military …

… 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 … Matthew Smith …

… 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 …

… Over the past months, politicians, journalists, and ordinary … goal of stopping human traffickers from Turkey. This fence was built with striking efficiency, despite the lack of … wounds of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s are still present. When crossing into Croatia, the refugees face the terrifying …

… 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?” …

… The Boxers, or  Yihequan (“Righteous and Harmonious Fists” … powers had de facto sovereignty over Chinese territory, was one of the most degrading aspects of Western imperialism … foreign delegations that had held out for six weeks. When it became clear that the Eight-nations would take the …

… 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 …

… 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 …