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… President Obama’s plans for the future of America’s civilian space programs,, outlined … exploitation of space — the high cost of reaching orbit. When I fly domestically, I pay about $2 per pound of me for … making space affordable can prove far more important than was beating the Russians to the moon. Instead of twelve …

… This lesson plan looks at the United States today and the current issue of unemployment. Our lesson plan follows … board.  This answer will be the standpoint that they take when writing a letter in the following class period(s) to …

… More than any other event of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, … it became a model of revolutionary political change that was followed throughout the world from Europe, to Haiti , … , Russia , and East Asia . And it all began one July day when the people of Paris captured a fourteenth-century …

… Quentin Morton’s Empires and Anarchies: A History of Oil in the Middle East , serves as a concise, easy-to-read … beginning with European exploration up to 1971, when all Middle Eastern states had obtained independence. … a more disparaging social structure. The oil industry was one in which jobs were given primarily to Europeans and …

… When the Second World War (WWII) ended in 1945 and the rest of Europe was beginning to rebuild itself, Greece entered into a … The years 1940–1949 were ones of continuous horror for the Greek people. … The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949 …

… When President Franklin D. Roosevelt was asked in 1935 to defend payroll contributions to Social Security, he said that he wanted “to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to …

… The campaign finance reform bill passed by Congress will … compromise even more difficult than it is today. In 1787, when James Madison, the Constitution’s greatest architect, was campaigning to get the Constitution ratified as the law … The Hidden Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform …

… The struggle over ownership of guns in the United States has … taken a dramatic turn. In the midst of the winter holidays, when you could bet that everyone’s mind was elsewhere, the U. S. Department of Justice decided to … Taking a Big Bite Out of the Second Amendment …

… Erich Ludendorff led an ill-fated attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government and establish a new nationalist … from economic turmoil to political unrest. The year 1923 was indeed a crucible for the fledgling German Republic. … of the republic proved itself at precisely this moment.  When all that remained of the Weimar democracy was the …

… research took me to a number of prominent cities in the former Yugoslavia: to Belgrade, Serbia, as well as Tuzla … of mountains, forests, fields, lakes, and rivers. The park was established in 1974, one of many founded during the socialist period of Yugoslavia. Djerdap is promoted as a …

… a major mistake by opposing filibuster reform. By opposing the proposal of Sen. Bill Frist, the Republican Senate … II period were even bolder in their aspiration. Their goal was to transform the Senate into a strictly majoritarian … as ending lynching. This struggle culminated in 1975 when Republican Vice President Nelson Rockefeller intervened …

… As China moves closer to the center of the world economy interest in China's future … Meanwhile, strong sense of commitment to their homeland was also prevalent among the Chinese diasporic communities.  … for foreign contact and capitalist modernity started cooled when the whole world was dragged into WWII. War experiences …

… met with Martin McGuiness, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland while touring Belfast as part of her Diamond … servant—would not be particularly noteworthy. However, this was not most cases, as McGuiness was not just any public … more and more as undemocratic, unfair, and anachronistic. When Catholics organized a civil rights protest movement …

… Summer’s heat brings with it, as it did last year, the threat of massive power outages. Everyone who’s suffered … distribution system, fought Westinghouse stubbornly. When it appeared he could no longer win by competing fairly, … Nth Power, a venture capital company in San Francisco, it wasn’t so much that Edison was wrong as that he was ahead of …

… Although Americans today may take the tactical and operational brilliance of their military … filled them with a burning desire for revenge. The result was what historian John Dower dubbed a “war without mercy” … march and Japanese mistreatment of U.S. prisoners of war. When U.S. troops returned to the Philippines, Gen. MacArthur …

… more than a decade after 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. … passengers on United Flight 93. The goal of the hijackings was to reprogram the guidance systems of the airliners so … with relatively long periods of cessation. In 2001, when the peace process collapsed entirely, a massive …