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… The Platt Amendment eviscerated all but the most cynical meaning of nationhood. Cubans had obtained independence … of a political imagination to infer ominously the larger meaning of pronouncements that justify a new policy on the …

… not be minimized. But the shorthand of “refugee crisis” (meaning, in effect, “a crisis for European states,” rather … organizations and national governments may interpret the meaning of agreements, history matters profoundly to … legal scholars that refugees deserved both protection and a meaningful and secure life—badly needs to be resurrected. …

… responsibility. And not empty responsibility, but real and meaningful opportunity for all members—regardless of …

… and making something new with it,” giving the distant past meaning to us in the modern day. As far as modern … the Viking Age is because we are searching for our own meaning within it, something to resonate with us in our …

… because the protests ended these silences and filled in the meaning of old symbols. Protestors wielded the flag of the … embrace of Soviet-era symbols, thus infusing them with new meaning once more. The War and the Weight of Traumatic … the heroic generation that saved the world from the Brown Plague.” In promoting the Victory so thoroughly, the …

… of past worlds that are more ethical and more historically meaningful. But can we really believe in the existence of …

… time the wealthiest region in Africa. What’s In a Name? The Meaning of “Boko Haram” A look at the origins of the name … Haram” is derived from a combination of the Hausa word book meaning “book” and the Arabic word haram , which means … which means forbidden or sinful. Boko has a multiplicity of meanings denoting things or actions having to do with …

… across the nation. But the act proved insufficient to bring meaningful changes and water quality continued to erode in … implemented what we would call a "regionalization project", meaning that they chose to work together. One good example … backgrounds have been able to work together to engage in meaningful conversations about the value of water …

… has since biblical times been imbued with powerful symbolic meanings: it is a boundary and a crossing point, a metaphor … infrastructural changes, the Jordan River took up new meanings as a geopolitical border, a contested transboundary …

… given time, of re-shaping intercollegiate athletics in a meaningful way: students, faculty, college presidents, …

… as a dark mass in the gut (left) . A photo from a 1975 plague victim shows necrosis of the hand, a characteristic … infection  (right). ​ Take for example the Justinianic plague of the 6 th -8th centuries CE, which killed half the … pestis (the same bacterium responsible for the Black Plague of 14 th century Europe, which killed a third of the …

… When it comes to generic products taking on localized meanings, the cases of Chinese McDonald’s and Starbucks are …

… The Black Death was the second pandemic of bubonic plague and the most devastating pandemic in world history. It was a descendant of the ancient plague that had afflicted Rome, from 541 to 549 CE, during the time of emperor Justinian. The bubonic plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, persisted …

… greatest export: Congolese rumba. The wildly popular and meaningful genre became a soundtrack to global change. … exploitation of Congolese resources by Western powers plagued and plague the nation to this day. This copper mine in the …

… narrate their stories in the 60s or 70s, in a public arena, meaning, you know, beginning to give to talk about it …

… used to describe Jewish immigration to Palestine, aliyah meaning "ascent" in Hebrew. "Yeridah" meaning "descent" in Hebrew was the term given to Jewish … Marc Chagal's "luftmensch". Luftmensch, the Yiddish term meaning "man of air", which refers to the impractical, …

… of political candidates. And that, you know, without meaningful campaign finance reform laws, I think it's hard …

… and political disagreements have renewed debate about the meaning of the EU. And many Europeans have voiced concern … expansion of the EC. While EC members contemplated the meaning of 1989 with trepidation, the newly liberated states … plans. Suddenly, the European project took on a new meaning in different parts of Europe. If the EU had begun …