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… put the entire  global economy in disarray and for years to come. Estimates of possible losses differ, but they are in … of China (ROC) that had been wrecked by decades of internal divisions, foreign incursions, and social upheavals.  The … The split opened the door for Richard Nixon’s historic visit to the PRC in late February 1972, a trip facilitated …

… weeks before Hitler’s suicide. As part of the 2nd Armored Division, the protagonists fight their way through a devastated Germany. The first major combat sequence takes place in an open field, as Collier and … which the protagonists in the film belong – the 2nd Armored Division – spent April completing the encirclement of the …

… is not quite as large as Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. It is also the second-most densely populated … Taiwan (where Ma grew up and went to college), Ma has never visited the Chinese mainland. After graduating at the top of … running mate Vice President-Elect Vincent Siew Wan-chang visited China in mid-April for an "unofficial" meeting with …

… at … well, any number of things. Lumping them together, the commentariat called all these angry voters “populists” and … R. Duterte of the Philippines posing with a military division in 2016 ( top left ). A 2015 demonstration in … ( bottom right ). Whatever else they may or may not have in common ideologically, these populists share an antipathy …

… history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and comparatively modern city of about 150,000 people. Exiting … fourth century B.C.E. Khorezmians were minting their early coins by the second century B.C.E. A century later the … Heritage City. Arabkhan madrasa, 1616. (Photo by author) Visitors are greeted with comfortable hotels, restaurants …

… of the Second World War began. More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … At the start of the war we reckoned with about 200 enemy divisions. Now we have already counted 360… When a dozen … th Soviet Armies suffered enormous losses: the 13 th Guards Division, entering the battle with over 10,000 men, …

… On one hand, huge new markets have opened to American companies; on the other, Chinese producers have created … parts of northern and eastern African coasts. And the visit of the Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta to China in the … relations with the United States after President Nixon’s visit to Beijing in 1972, and as a consequence found itself …

… Coming to terms with the American Civil War is no easy task. … affiliations, "mark[ing] an ominous wrenching of the party division between Whigs and Democrats into a sectional division between free and slave states that foreshadowed the …

… and cultural challenges. The crisis that would become the Nigerian Civil War began on January 15, 1966 when a … a military body led by General Johnson Aguysi Ironsi, the Commander of the Nigerian Army, who was also Igbo. The … groups, was a crucial factor in reinforcing these regional divisions. Unification fused together culturally and …

… to honor a German naturalist who made exactly one brief visit to the United States early in the nineteenth century, but whose adventures and accomplishments were so much admired they made him an … impact on, and in turn depend on the environment. How many visitors, for example, fail to see the irony of driving an …

… Union. Nearly three years, later, however, the final outcome of Brexit remains uncertain. And issues that affect the … changed? What were the political and economic forces that compelled the UK to join the EU in the first place? What … Dream? , Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace , and The EU: Past, Present, and Future . ( …

… From a meagre population of 150 when the British East India Company first set up a factory and trading post on the … transactions were facilitated by the use of Chinese copper coins. Chinese currency facilitated trade not just with … A crowd of children cheers the return of the 5th Indian Division to Singapore in 1945. The logical conclusion, for …

… from Akin's, and President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to not make "health care decisions on behalf of … grown more widely available. As the professionalization and commercialization of medicine began, more abortion options … century, social scientists began to publish statistics comparing birth rates among nations. As nationalism and …

… been a minor Jewish festival. Yet this holiday — which commemorates the successful Israelite revolt in the second … including the newly secularized Christmas. “Santa Claus visited the East Side last night,” the New York Tribune … doing Judah Maccabee proud. Historian David Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and …

… but the game itself made no money. Men’s college basketball commenced with a similarly obscure contest.  In 1895 at … a nifty $549 million for the teams and their conferences.  Division I men’s basketball is the other big NCAA … by poorly compensated, short-term contract, adjunct, and visiting professors. Employees Who Don’t Get Paid For over a …

… December 25, 1848, brought an unwelcome gift to the Queen City. That Christmas Day, a dying man … “Cincinnati is the city of pigs,” wrote English visitor Isabella Lucy Bird. “[S]wine lean, gaunt, and … English travel writer Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904) who visited Cincinnati in the 1850s. After Cincinnati’s initial …

… one day after the author's arrival. ( United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees ) We came to Greece with only a … We found people sleeping in tents underneath shipping compartments or on meager strips of grass, a mere stone's … Hisham, for example, were two Iraqi boys who often came to visit us while we were serving tea. Both fourteen, they had …

… fight racial prejudice through a celebration of multiracial community. The event takes its name from the 1967 Supreme … as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth,” they were offered one year imprisonment or a … their hometown. After being arrested again in 1963 while visiting relatives in Virginia, Mildred Loving wrote …

… a life in the wake of the Holocaust, many Jewish survivors, community and religious leaders, and Allied soldiers viewed … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the … that we ritualized in our home in that when we used to visit my grandmother, she would take us to a visit with her …

… congregated in streets and squares and demanded the end of communist rule. These are indelible images deeply impressed … sense of this shift from wonders to worries, one must revisit the history of communism, explore its collapse, and … into the Soviet sphere of influence following the Cold War division of Europe. With Stalin's help, Communist Parties …

… recreational use. Across the state, celebratory stoners welcomed the New Year by lining up at licensed retailers to buy … punitive drug laws, announced that he too would pursue accommodation for medical marijuana; and recreational … purchasing medical marijuana requires a perfunctory visit to a “pot doc”—licensed physicians who specialize in …

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to The Global War on Drugs brought to you by the … holds a PhD in history from Ohio State and is currently visiting assistant professor at the Moritz College of Law in … are 50 years old. President Nixon had created a national commission to study marijuana and he even chose the nine of …

… on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … Canal, the Suez and the Corinth Canal in Greece cannot even compete!" The project outlined by Erdogan calls for a 45-50 … the foreign occupation in the heart of their territory—with division of much of the Anatolian heartland among neighbors, …