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… Guantanamo Bay has become one the most infamous places on earth.  In the United States and … the role of Theodore Roosevelt in its ascent.  Roosevelt was fascinated by naval power and pressed for Americans to … to create such a naval presence in the Caribbean came when the United States invaded Cuba – then a Spanish colony …

… It was George Marshall, architect of the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt Europe after World War II, … supplies has to occur before the annual massive snowfalls, when it becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible, to …

… The years from 1950 to about 1975 have been called “The … higher education enjoyed great esteem and prestige and was widely regarded as the best in the world. Fifty years … in higher education today that it is hard to imagine a time when colleges and universities did not openly solicit …

… The furor over comments made by Gen. Stanley McChrystal and … clashes between presidents and wartime commanders, both of them, curiously, of similar prefixes — Generals George … deficiencies in this regard are especially apparent when warriors are given highly calculated and politically …

… This year we celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the 1967 Summer of Love. Be-ins and … 1960s hippies dancing at a festival. San Francisco was the American epicenter for the Summer of Love, and the … and London was another major center of this youth culture. When the UFO Club opened in London in December 1966, …

… “Unimaginable!” That is the word we have screamed, out loud and in our heads, since … word we heard survivors and witnesses say over and over: It was simply unimaginable that the World Trade Center towers … violently attack the homes and stores of the wealthy. Only when Manhattan has burned and burned and burned to the very …

… The concept of Easter, a spring festival of renewal, a … of resurrection, lies anciently and deeply embedded in the human spirit. Hunters and gatherers, who foraged across … Minor, believed that their god Attis, who committed suicide when frustrated in love, returned to life in the spring.  …

… Zimbabwe , formerly Southern Rhodesia, gained independence from British colonialism … the late 1800s. Rhodes demonstrated his imperial ambitions when he planned to establish a Cape to Cairo railway & … allocated land along racial lines. The most productive land was granted to white settlers, a small minority, while the …

… Jimmy Carter was the last president to ask the nation for collective … which have no confidence or purpose.”   Energy independence was the rallying point of Carter’s speech. He charted a plan … unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, …

… Jimmy Carter was the last president to ask the nation for collective … which have no confidence or purpose."   Energy independence was the rallying point of Carter's speech. He charted a plan … unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, …

… “Nothing equals the voluptuous power of feminine underwear,” could be the … the bustles, the structured brassieres and girdles. When draped over mannequins, these artifacts come to life as … design. As Steele explains it, in the beginning there was only the t-shaped undergarment (which later became the …

… “I don’t think they’re done conquering us yet. It just keeps happening.” … tens of thousands of lives, civilian and warrior alike. It was a war of atrocity, massacre, and systematic violence. By … has to agree that what those people [the Spaniards] did when they came to Mexico was a true crime against …

… The United States continues to live under the fear of … can play a role in preventing nuclear terrorism. It was during the Cold War that Americans first came to grips … During the 1980s, President Reagan used this approach when negotiating with the Soviets. The Stockholm Conference …

… Donald Trump’s untraditional approach to the presidency has led Politico to call him the “ Disruptor … a fundamental fact about water: it rarely stays put. Wastes discharged into bodies of water tend to wind up in … its meaning. At least that was the case until fall 2019, when the Trump administration announced it would repeal the …

… medium-range nuclear missiles.   Despite this treaty, both the United States and Russia still have thousands of nuclear … of nuclear weapons can be diverted to peaceful uses. This was the ambition of President Eisenhower when he made nuclear arms control a priority with his Atoms …

… Every commentator in America is drawing the parallel between the recent terrorist attacks and the … the handful of strategists who warned that Pearl Harbor was vulnerable, a chorus of Cassandras have persistently … be concentrated against American interests in the Far East. When Osama bin Laden has made his threats against the United …

… talking about rebuilding and restoring, wholly ignoring the fact that coasts have always been the most changeable of … homo littoralis — that is, people of the seashore.   There was once a time when the traces of disaster lingered longer in the form of … Sandy Should Inspire New Ways of Building and Living on the Seashore …

… of a republic," Congress must reassert its control of the war power under Article II, Section 8, of the U.S. … to Congress the sole right to declare war.  The occasion was the debate over the American military intervention in … Polk ordered American troops into the disputed territory.  When the inevitable clash occurred, Polk told Congress that …

… February 3, 2020 was supposed to be a busy news night. It was the evening of the Iowa caucuses, the first chance for … a shared culture and identity for the British people. When it comes to news, Americans seem unable to agree on … “No News Day” at the BBC …

… On the surface, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 seem as dissimilar as two … the start Soviet officials pushed forward the idea that it was a foreign virus. By the end of 1987, there were fifteen … of the official response in casting blame on foreigners. When Soviets did turn their attention to their fellow …