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… gathered in Independence Square demanding that public officials do something to help the jobless. During the … Accurate employment statistics for the period are hard to come by, but according to some accounts, the national … harsh winter of 1893-94, many cities organized emergency committees to coordinate local campaigns on behalf of the …

… of the re-admittance of South Africa to the international community. To many, winning a rugby tournament might seem to … laws that institutionalized apartheid—which lasted officially from 1948 to 1994—that brought the issue of … visitors to co-host South Korea, the identical number who visited the country in the same period during the preceding …

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a protest in Beijing’s … in Chinese society. In imperial times, the upright official was to remonstrate his lord; in the eleventh … cemetery in Chongqing is chained and locked, and gravesites are carefully watched. One recalls from the Maoist era …

… current appellation, Zetian, was her posthumous title. Her official given name was Zhao, a character she created for … the Sui and established the Tang dynasty. He rose to become Minister of Works, giving Wu Zetian an early taste of … two full sisters, and a tangle of cousins—all competing for attention and status. After her father’s …

… in a stalemate with Axis troops north of Rome. With a commanding view of the narrow approach to the Po River … the men of the 10th Mountain Division proved themselves in combat. With an audacious single-file night climb up the … between these two units in Italy.  On June 29, 1945, an official directive arrived at 10th Mountain Division …

… antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone … The Friday night ruckus surprised hapless University officials. Local leaders insisted that “outside agitators” … Guard moved on campus and pushed students from the central Commons back toward the dorms. Having done so, the Guard’s …

… of 2013. Thanks to the explosion of electronic forms of communication, even since the election of Benedict in 2005, … like-minded believers, whether or not they share the same official creeds or denominations. Agreement on matters like … ornate cathedral became popular viewing on YouTube and news sites on the web. For Copts, however, it was God who made …

… Bob Knight, nicknamed "The General," for defying university officials and for violating a "zero tolerance" policy … rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … "his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." He visited New York City, where 7.5 million people gathered to …

… to include many more citizens since 1776, these gains have come haltingly and unevenly. Even as women gained suffrage, … polls in many parts of the country for decades. And elected officials have long meddled with district boundaries to … voter suppression continue to affect electoral outcomes today? Listen in to find out. To learn more about the …

… spelled out, in English, the word Newborn . Fireworks accompanied live appearances by pop stars and elected officials. The Serbian government had been bracing for this … thousand demonstrators, some of whom vandalized local sites associated with those countries that supported …

… Most journalists, federal officials, and General Motors (GM) executives are … in spring 2009. What was then the world’s largest auto company had been hemorrhaging money for years, losing an … astonishing $69.6 billion in 2007-2008. By early 2009, the company faced bankruptcy, with no private investors willing …

… NATO “officially” ended its combat operations in Afghanistan in … Crews ,  Scott Levi , and Alam Payind about Afghanistan’s complex history to ask what the past of these peoples and … Patrick Potyondy   Hello and welcome to History Talk from Origins: Current Events in …

… and a staggering landmark in human population growth combined to give new urgency to the existential question of … supported them. We, by contrast, have arrived at the opposite situation: our individual lives are far more healthy … interact with the natural workings of the earth system in complex, unprecedented ways and in a markedly short …

… the courage to privilege truth seeking and challenge the official narrative of the Turkish government has been … to produce genocide. These include the Young Turks' intense commitment to the homogenization of Anatolia (a development … on the role of religion, not simply ethnicity, as a major component in the homogenization policies of the Committee of …

… Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk , produced by Origins: Current Events … we will end with the Anthropocene. So this will be an official change, recognizing that the degree of human impact … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, …

… the Jewish homeland, many Jews instead saw the country as a site of displacement or a way-station to more desirable … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Welcome to Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and … resettlement of Jewish refugees after the war, it was the official policy of the Joint not to assist those leaving the …

… enslaved Africans generated tremendous wealth for an elite community of slave owners, slave traders, and political … enslaved individuals and their descendants petitioned for compensation, recognition, and material support, known today … the Association faced increasing opposition from federal officials who sought to undermine the operations of the …

… your candidacy for the Democratic Party’s nomination is official. Washington’s successful Chicago mayoral campaign … to get voters registered. He realized that if he were to become the city’s first African American elected mayor he … demonstrates the distance that the people of Chicago have come since Washington’s election. Like it or not, though, …

… call “the law of unintended consequences.” That phrase has come to be understood as a warning that intervention in a complex system tends to create unexpected and often … undesirable results.   The U.S. Constitution is one such complex system, and making changes to it can sometimes …

… in Iraq: the longer we stay, the stronger our enemies become. We cannot defeat either the insurgency or the civil … the defeated Ottoman Empire after World War I, but British officials ignored the ethnic and religious antagonisms … unable to halt the violence. Yet we insist that Iraq can become a democratic model for the rest of the Muslim states of …

… four years of Nazi occupation. Following a week of guerilla combat between Resistance fighters and the occupying German … Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor and commander of the city’s German garrison, formally … happen in the summer of 1944. For U.S. and British military officials at the time, Paris was simply not a high priority. …

… ground. They are fronts on political theaters of war: sites where vying factions negotiate history, a society’s … unpalatable, or politically divisive emperor, all official monuments carrying his likeness would be destroyed. … that of Nero’s by Vitellius. Damnatio memoriae was most common after regime change. Note however, that the names of …

… supply global agriculture with one of its most important commodities: synthetic fertilizer. In the process, the … air pollution in the country. During the 1960s, however, complaints by farmers and ranchers eventually forced … Association and numerous scientists and public health officials describe as “the precise adjustment of the …