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… Swat, Pakistan, where he was pursuing a graduate degree in computer engineering. He left seven months ago because he … his life, he left everything behind and departed for the European Union. All that stands in his way is the border … but for those waiting in limbo time moves slowly and hope dies fast. [All photos by author] …

… in biomedicine in recent years. Three of our “deadly companions.” Poliovirus ( left ), Influenza ( center ), and … the leader Pericles. Pericles, an Athenian statesman who died during the Plague of Athens in 429 BCE. The results … then it would be the first recorded epidemic of smallpox in Europe) . According to Galen, the disease afflicted young …

… dotted with reminders of this past, but the residents welcome visitors with true Albanian hospitality and intend to … dot the countryside today. After a 40-year rule, Hoxha died in 1985. With the revolutions of 1989 and the collapse … and resulting in a large exodus of Albanians to Western Europe and the U.S. In 2004, ten eastern European countries …

… to be one of the most powerful and influential monarchs of European history, feared on the battlefield and the … his empire. When Süleyman was made sultan, his kingdom encompassed the peoples and territories of the Balkans, … to come under Ottoman rule. Years later, Süleyman himself died “peacefully” in his command tent while leading his last …

… increase in animosity toward the United States may remind some of attitudes abroad toward U.S. foreign policy at the … to the United States during the Cold War era. Most Europeans in the Cold War era were not against American … trade, encouraging the development of the European common market and paying the lion’s share for NATO, the …

… Kurdish leaders were largely exempt from taxation. A medieval castle in northeast Syria once known as Hisn al-Akrād … having lost its territories in the Caucasus and much of its European land. The 17th century Ottoman imperial Yeni Cami … posed, read the 12 th point of Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points as support for their independence. Indeed, the Treaty …

… On 20 November 1975, Spanish General Francisco Franco died in bed, signaling the unceremonious end of one of Europe’s longest dictatorships (1939-1975). Portrait of … of the Fallen is a mass burial site that was designed to commemorate the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) as a …

… the French Duke of Normandy. It is a reminder that the complicated, ambivalent, and sometimes hostile relationship between England and the rest of Europe goes back a long way. Edward the Confessor In January 1066, Edward the Confessor, King of England, died without an heir, which motivated several claimants to …

… epidemics first emerged during the many plague outbreaks in Europe during the 14 th century and were relied upon with … strength and quantity, and are well mixed.” Humoral theory, combined with ignorance of germs, created a situation ripe … get to be sure), or theriac, a syrup made of various ingredients including opium that were aged for up to a decade …

… through the city of Paris from the Temple, the fortified medieval monastery where he was imprisoned, to the Place de la … and Navarre, c. 1779. He traveled in the mayor's coach accompanied by his confessor, Henry Essex Edgeworth de … of the king by his people was a transformative moment in European politics. Illustrations of Louis XVI in the custody …

… the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences flocked to public concert halls to applaud the … symphony is no dusty, moribund genre. Nor is it confined to Europe, with its venerable musical traditions, as a mere …

… and Bon Appétit podcasts, it is likely that you have heard someone discussing the importance of fresh and local ingredients.  Many cookbooks published in past ten years promise … debates about food in the Enlightenment.  These books combine descriptions of food and ingredients with innovative …

… July 8, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, former East European satellites of the former Soviet Union, were admitted to the North Atlantic Treaty … to expand NATO is based on an outdated crusade against communism, a crusade launched against the Soviet Union in …

… was his only advice, citing a famous and beloved Russian comedy about excessive drinking, Eldar Ryazanov’s 1975 film … the same; both killed their own sons and heirs. Both also died in their early 50s due in part to the toll alcohol had … health and wellness spheres continue to come true. Schrad points to taxation policies as the prime reason Russians …

… by the U.S. Socialist Party, it brought together an audience of 1,500 women who demanded economic and political … celebration. Inspired by these American initiatives, European socialists soon followed suit. At the International … break with socialist tradition. Though ideologically committed to human equality, socialists had long argued that …

… Europeans are certainly familiar with national borders. … the Second World War. Glassheim notes that with the end of combat in Europe in 1945, the borderlands of Czechoslovakia … “always a foreign ulcer in our body.” That "ulcer" was remedied in Most by way of a forced “cleansing” or “liquidation” …

… Shakespeare (1564-1616) and Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) died, like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, on the very same day: April 23 rd , … the rights of his novel to a printer. He was buried in a common grave. Most profoundly, our modern sensibility is … Europe …

… and they will conjure up images of beleaguered Red Army soldiers at Stalingrad , the mechanized carnage of the tank … early losses in the war, helped rescue the countries of Europe from the domination of Nazi Germany and its allies. … may find the short, somewhat choppy, chapters jarring at points, the episodic nature of Johnson’s account helps to …

… the reader.   The reviewer’s photos during the peaceful component of the pro-democracy EuroMaidan protests.  December 2013. As current news broadcasts and websites talk of the plight of today’s Crimean Tartars, many … Europe …

… Revolution , the only son of a mother whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, … Soviet counter-intelligence agency, for writing derogatory comments about Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a private … of Soviet soldiers were sent directly from Western Europe into the camp system, the Soviet people remained …

… key periods of global history, including the Roman era, Medieval Europe, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, as well as the … law, for instance, usury is now accepted as a standard accompaniment to the modern market economy. Indeed, one of … Europe …