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… Headquartered at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, OH, Project Blue Book ran for 12 years beginning in … investigating reports of UFOs. To this end it instituted a comprehensive study of UFOs.  This study, known as Project … “misinterpretation of known objects.”  Nevertheless, it recommended continued investigation of all sightings.  Project …

… impact outside Europe than in it, he nevertheless makes a compelling case for viewing these wars as events of truly … rest of the world in a breathtakingly wide span of case studies ranging from Chile to Japan . These case studies … campaigns, particularly in 1805-1806, but Mikaberidze points out that the anti-French powers were even more …

… shows like Netflix’s  Ragnarok  and  Norsemen,  to screen adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s  American Gods  and Bernard … ties were also immensely important, for one often needed community support at the assembly to win a legal case. Thus, … was not the first one to do so, his work found a captive audience: the Victorians loved Vikings.  In previous …

… Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I [Jesus] have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19 NIV). This Great Commission … end of the first gospel of the New Testament laid the foundation for a dual-focused Christian mission: proclaiming the … Evangelical Left , explores the development of the understudied—and by many accounts, unacknowledged—Latin American …

… dismantled the Tokugawa political structure of feudal domains and re-centralized local administration under … “The ‘Meiji 150th’ project has two main goals,” explained cabinet secretary Uekusa Yasuhiko , “The first is to have the … Assistance.  “As the first non-Western nation to become a developed country, Japan built itself into a country …

… , to name a few. Yet, aside from the high-profile case studies of Cuba and Nicaragua, one region of the Global South … and development. Latin America is a vast region comprising 33 individual countries in the southern half of … fields of Latin American, Third World, and Cold War history points the way toward much future research. With memorable …

… speculative thinking with his new biography on Trotsky. Coming after his previous biographies on Lenin and Stalin, … political writings, but rather on the often surprisingly mundane aspects of his personal life. Believing that it is "in … Alexander Parvus (1867-1924) and fell in love with his life-companion, Natalya Sedova (1882-1962). Quickly returning to …

… On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Armistice went into effect, … the story goes. In January 1918, after forty-one months of combat, Allied troops were ready for a ceasefire, but they … and the failure of the Spring Offensive caused German soldiers’ morale to plummet. The impact was devastating. On …

… beginnings, the Provisionals became the most important and dangerous separatist paramilitary group during the … Catholic Republic of Ireland, an utterly unacceptable outcome. They therefore fiercely fought the civil rights … take a seat, even if elected) in either of the electoral bodies that represented the two halves of the island: the …

… ensuing chaos and devastation, painfully relevant to all audiences who had endured not only World War I , but also the … cavorted with dancing girls. Finally, the figure of comic writer Ostap Vyshnia was depicted hunting a line of … Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s (Rodovid, 2015). Website: “Open Kurbas” created by Tetiana Rudenko and the …

… core exhibition on October 28, 2014 marked an important day in Polish-Jewish history. After years of controversies and compromises, the final product represents the dedicated … Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a professor of performance studies at New York University, who was appointed to as the …

… Under a cloak of early morning darkness on December 18, 2011, some 500 U.S. soldiers at Camp Adder in southern Iraq boarded 110 military … some five hours later. This departure of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division of the U.S. …

… in Tikrit, a Sunni stronghold and the former hometown of Saddam Hussein. When ISIS forces drove through villages … some political pundits conclude, negotiations cannot overcome divine principles dictating distinct worldviews that … as  ashura . Shi'is believe that Husayn was a martyr who died the rightful leader of the political community. …

… Africans in the Virginia colony, marking the beginning of a dark legacy, the impacts of which are still felt in American … the global economy. This conversation has raised uncomfortable questions about contemporary businesses and … created a government-sanctioned monopoly for the West-Indies and empowered slave-trading states in West Africa.” If …

… When W.W. Norton published Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique in February 1963, it printed … magazine. She went on to Smith College, where she studied psychology and completed a year of graduate work at the University of …

… career with the United States Forest Service, that my many happy memories of camping, fishing, and hunting trips in a … Roosevelt helped solidify conservation as a national agenda item along with preservationist John Muir.  At times, the … onto both parties’ national agendas for decades to come and FDR splicing “conservation into the Democratic …

… war broke-out in the former-Yugoslavia. Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic's bloody campaign for a "Greater Serbia" … a test of how well the United States, and the international community could create institutions of governance after the … provided with a vigorous defense. Slobodan Milosevic died in a jail cell in The Hague. Meanwhile the Bush …

… a strong hold on the imagination of the American public. To commemorate “Honest Abe,” Origins offers ten of the most … since the murderer proclaimed his identity to a stunned audience in Ford’s Theatre. Non-academic writers have … the timing was Biblical, since Lincoln was shot on Good Friday. 4. The People Connected to the Assassination Mary Todd …

… and Liu Bang, who founded the Han Empire.” Historians today are less hasty to ascribe such influence to individual … of China’s greatest imperial dynasty was, like Mao, a commoner. As with many dynastic founders, it is difficult to … and “Madam Liu”). They were farmers, working the rice paddies that stretched out from the Yellow River northward over …

… of four primary protagonists: an African American soldier, a Belgian nurse, a German soldier, and his French … (1994) Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) began developing computer games in 1979, but only established itself as a … has grades for each skill set (politics, war, etc.), body points to simulate the ruler’s health, and a set limit on …

… was the result of a decades-long global program involving complex geopolitical cooperation, human ingenuity, and … however, Deputy Minister of the Soviet Union, Viktor Zhdanov, renewed the proposal. Zhdanov proposed a five-year … she was diagnosed with  variola major on August 20; she died on September 11 and became smallpox’s final victim.  In …

… like Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, were part of these ongoing, multilateral … After touring British colonies in Africa, Macmillan had become increasingly convinced that “national consciousness” … of Lumumba’s anti-Western sentiments and as a result of soldiers’ mutinies and secessionist movements in the southern …