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… Yemen’s internationally recognized government is sitting comfortably in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 900 miles away from … dozens of protesters were killed in March 2011, civil disobedience was accompanied by attacks in retribution, … to Yemen to constitute the core of the country’s civil service for the subsequent seven decades. This initial group …

… The Crimea that most people have come to know is a peninsula occupied by Russian forces, … peoples who inhabited the steppe north of the coast, combined forces with the Ottoman Empire and expelled the … Crimea to Russia, as the ancient site where, according to medieval Russian documents, Prince Vladimir “the Baptist” …

… signed between the PRC and a minority people and is part of communist China’s larger nation-building process in its … principles of “ cho-si sungdrel, ” or religion and politics combined. Mao Zedong (middle), Ngabo Ngawang Jigme (left) … the backdoor for invaders to attack the Middle Kingdom. The communists under Mao Zedong acted on that same assumption. A …

… Ehrlich predicted that hundreds of millions of people would die in a global famine in the 1970s unless the rise in human … visions of Malthus, Ehrlich, and other doomsayers have not come to pass.  Drawing on a rich variety of government … number of deaths due to any particular famine because of incomplete records and because death tolls are often …

… which stand to make hundreds of millions in fees and commissions, and anti-welfare state conservative ideologues, … about the gloomy long-term predictions President Bush’s new commission offers concerning the future of the system. … in New Brunswick, N.J., and a writer for the History News Service. …

… Derzhprom building on Kharkiv’s Freedom Square is the most complete example of constructivist architecture in the world … was the largest single structure in the world when it was completed in 1928. To complete the project in a speedy two and a half years, 5,000 …

… Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … of the nation that Catherine had begun. Many, many died and many were killed. Then in 1954, Khrushchev … as citizens of the universe. That is this, I don't know who coined this term, "revolution of dignity", but I really feel …

… spy. Since then, as this list shows, espionage became more complex and increasingly valuable. The times change, but … He acted in the capacity of Her Majesty’s original secret service, working officially as Secretary of State and … Townsend, along with Washington, shared a secret code to communicate that Tallmadge devised. Townsend ran a coffee …

… Since the economic crisis we’re now in is being compared to the Great Depression, the solutions being offered are being routinely compared to the New Deal. Republicans in particular have … (R-Ohio) is so angry at the New Deal that he told an audience recently that Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal actually …

… heritage. Michael Axworthy, a former British Foreign Service officer and a lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, covers an enormous span of … its weather, and the origin of the word "Persian," which comes from Fars province in southwestern Iran, home to …

… to Iran in 2007. Switzerland's Swiss EGL energy trading company recently completed a forty-two billion dollar agreement with the National Iranian Gas Export Company. Though European leaders said the right things on … History News Service …

… noted that work on the largest mosque in the city had been completed just before his arrival, but Timur ordered its … of Clavijo and the party of other ambassadors who he accompanied to the cosmopolitan city provoked mild interest, … on account of their strange clothes and quaint customs. Medieval Castilians, it seems, were regarded as rather …

… phenomenon. This is why Congress should examine the recommendations made in a 2002 British government Green Paper … sector military operators. Mercenaries — professional soldiers who fight for pay rather than out of ideological … Center in Washington and a writer for the History News Service. …

… and Russia, and with nearly two times the per-capita income of China, Brazil is on track to become a major force in … After her release, Rousseff returned to college and studied economics, and began a career in government service. Rousseff was not a member of the Worker's Party …

… With charges of fraud flying, Congress set up an electoral commission to settle the issue of who would be the next president. The commissioners were supposed to be like the original … Electors: dispassionate and independent. In reality, the commission split along party lines with an eight-to-seven …

… husbands’ unfinished business. In Wyoming, William B. Ross died while governor in October 1924 from complications following an emergency appendectomy. The … the District of Columbia. Women gubernatorial officeholders come from both major U.S. political parties. Since December …

… needed for decisions we’re stuck with. The Framers weren’t comfortable with slender majorities when the nation’s … extended period. The longer the duration of the democratic commitment, the greater the degree of consensus they … While the ability to alter the Constitution is an essential component of democratic self-government, an easily …

… less interest in actual immigrants who might settle and become part of the citizenry. The program thus conditioned … both are still trying to work out ). Large agricultural companies wanted cheap labor while the Border Patrol and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) felt compelled to respond to Americans’ …

… the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the … Race We knew about race, of course. Though we lived in a completely white neighborhood, there was no way to avoid … the ghetto was in place, City Hall starved it of public services: as late as 1950, a quarter of the homes in the …

… showed too much sympathy for southern interests. They complained that he would not compromise with diverse and powerful political groups in the … culture and politics, and is a writer for the History News Service. … History News Service …

… discovered since the mid-1960s (four of which just cause a common cold in humans). A microscopic image of SARS-CoV It … 2002- July 2003. While these numbers are miniscule in comparison to the COVID-19 pandemic, the mysterious nature … of Hanoi and who first identified the disease for the WHO, died of the disease on March 29. Though his death was …

… taxes and keep the peace, the more than one thousand soldiers were heavily resented by Bostonians as an affront to … soldiers and townspeople and by early 1770, fights had become commonplace. The death of a young man, Christopher Seider, …