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… where the Admiral of the Royal Navy James Gambier is shaking hands with the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, John Quincy … and will not commemorate its end either, and it is worth asking why. The notion that the United States had to … Boonshoft … Milestones … Atlantic … United States … United Kingdom … U.S. Revolutionary War/Era … The War We Refuse to …

… of the 2024 World Cup. The United States, who were making their tournament debut, defeated the established … oldest form of the game, with the first official match taking place in 1877. The name reflects the demanding nature … Afghans, the Taliban lifted its ban on cricket in 2000, making it the only sport approved in Afghanistan.  The fall of …

… cobbler he and his mistress supplemented their income by taking in boarders.  With so many itinerant laborers moving in … with the face just in case the authorities came around asking questions. As long as the medical practitioners of … McMillin … Reviews … Europe … Science & Technology … United Kingdom … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Crime … The …

… Gallagher writes that fear of venereal infection was “lurking around every corner” in the Britain of the long 18th … races and form a basis for racial politics, frequently attacking Jews and persons of African descent as bringers of … Haven: Yale, 2019) … Jim Harris … Reviews … Europe … United Kingdom … Sexuality & Reproductive Rights … Public Health, …

… … Richard Reid … Africa … Uganda … Decolonization … United Kingdom … Military/War/Peace … Idi Amin's Uganda …

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… Venkatesh … World War I / WWI … South Asia … India … United Kingdom … Colonialism/Imperialism … The Amritsar Massacre …

… denoting a special relationship between two English-speaking countries separated by an ocean but sharing a heritage … … Itai Sneh … History News Service … United States … United Kingdom … Diplomacy/International Relations … A New Atlantic …

… village of Rosslea, Northern Ireland, a plaque linking a rebellion that occurred in 1798 and the present IRA’s … News Service … Europe … Northern Ireland … Ireland … United Kingdom … Military/War/Peace … Guns/Weapons … Diplomacy/International Relations … Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics …

… the French Duke of Normandy. … Wenxi Liu … Europe … United Kingdom … Medieval … Military/War/Peace … 1066: The Normans …

… in former Soviet republics, especially in Ukraine . In Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation, From 1470 to the Present , … inquiries under what he calls the “Russian question.” Lost Kingdom both investigates the historical development of this …

… about the tragic couple and their mythic Camelot. Stephen King’s recent best-selling novel 11/22/63 (2012) tells the … that saving Kennedy would also “save his brother. Save Martin Luther King. Stop the race riots. Stop Vietnam, maybe … Get …

… the 1963 March on Washington. The march’s signature event, Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech, continues to stir the …

… Peninsula, experienced stability as part of the Visigoth Kingdom centered in Toledo (in present-day region Castile-La … Mancha). In 718, Muslim invaders swept the peninsula, attacking cities in southern France. By 760, the Franks began … Muslims. In 801, Louis the Pious, the son of the Frankish king Charlemagne, captured Barcelona from the Muslims. …

… know it today emerged in the United States and the United Kingdom at the end of the nineteenth century from a variety … Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem about an Acadian girl seeking her lover after they were separated during the forced … The show ends, just as Elisabeth’s real life did, with her assassination at the hands of an Italian anarchist…. and …

… France were jolted from their sleep when a bomb exploded, taking the roof off of room #19 and ending the life of Marx … to find out. And so begins Brunelle and Finley-Croswhite’s Assassination in Vichy , like any good tale of murder and … of the right-wing terrorist organization, the Cagoule. Assassination in Vichy , then, is more than a history of the …

… the commemoration for the hundred-year anniversary of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.   Patrick Potyondy   In a … what happened. Austro-Hungarian rule ended and Yugoslav Kingdom emerged.   Patrick Potyondy   In considering this … moving forward, I think was pretty salient in terms of speaking to the contemporary, general political situation in …

… my daughter’s first-grade class celebrated the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. at her elementary school in our small Midwestern …

… LA 92, directed by Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin "We have to do with the past only as we can make it … the documentary. Oscar-winning directors Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin endeavored to create a film that explored Los Angeles … efforts in L.A. Lindsay and Martin begin the film by looking back thirty years to the Watts Rebellion that took …

… of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), Martin Luther King, Jr. (president of the Southern Christian Leadership …

… this landscape, Leo XIII deplored the conditions of the working class as “a yoke little better than that of slavery … Pope Leo is not the first Augustinian to make history.  Martin Luther was a devout Augustinian in 1517, when he hammered …

… territories in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the New World, making them the most powerful country in Christendom. Of all … the important Spanish possessions were poorly defended, making it difficult to determine where Morgan's men would … and The Battle for the Caribbean , by Peter Earle (St. Martin's Press '07, $25.95, 292 pages, ISBN #0-312-36142-4; …