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… wake of a mass shooting such as the one in Parkland, FL, commentators, pundits, and politicians all gather around to … ill. Darren Rainey, who suffered from schizophrenia, died in 2012 from burns to over ninety percent of his body … or psyche. In trying to find physiological origins for maladies, psychiatrists hoped they might treat schizophrenia, …

… future when “some evil spell” had settled on our communities, when “mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep … snakes, or bamboo rats, and then transferred to people buying meat in a poorly regulated “wet market” where meat …

… scandal-ridden. Sadly for former President Gerald Ford, who died Tuesday evening, his well-deserved vindication will probably never come. Thrust into a difficult situation — one he handled … Nixon would not be prosecuted for any crimes he might have committed. Forever afterward, Ford was dogged by charges …

… Lauren Henry  Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together … Professor of History and Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University. Dr. Albarran studies revolutionary … day of his presidency, they unveiled a new logo for the website of the govierno de Mexico the website, which is kind …

… On 20 November 1975, Spanish General Francisco Franco died in bed, signaling the unceremonious end of one of … of the Fallen is a mass burial site that was designed to commemorate the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) as a … opponents. By the war’s end, 350,000 Spaniards had died as a result of the conflict and another 500,000 had …

… Revolution , the only son of a mother whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, … Soviet counter-intelligence agency, for writing derogatory comments about Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a private … in the aftermath of the war, when trainloads of Soviet soldiers were sent directly from Western Europe into the camp …

… Brenna Miller   Welcome to History Talk, the podcast that brings together a … a professor of classics and affiliate of black world studies at Miami University in Ohio. She's the author of "Race: … and let me just give props to Curtis. He's in charge of a website. Now, that's been tracking a really wide range of …

… employed them in operations to deliver weapons to various combatants in Africa. By his own admission, he had flown … upon a sting operation with DEA agents posing as would-be buyers from FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of … surplus of the Soviet bloc that unpaid or underpaid soldiers and commanders were only too eager to sell for ready …

… Patrick Potyondy   Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone, … with the public from teaching, to writing for a popular audience. We'll even question the value of public intellectual … and many more, as the Times calls them hits on its website.   Patrick Potyondy   And so just to wrap up, do you …

… and Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies at The Ohio State University.  An Andrew Carnegie … Distinguished Lecturer, Nichols is a frequent public commentator on U.S. politics and foreign policy. Nichols is … to get that out to the wider public, and to help generate buy-in. And so you see much more, especially the mid 20th …

… French scholar Jean Bauberot. Bauberot sees three essential components to a secular society: 1) the separation of … tumult of French politics in the 19th century, the French commitment to what they call laïcité remained. By the Third Republic (1870-1940) it had become “a defining ideology of the state.” It has become …

… the aristocracy-based patronage system, which had sustained composers for generations.  Now, middle-class audiences flocked to public concert halls to applaud the … his fortune in Vienna. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who had died the year before, reshaped expectations for the …

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to "Election 2020: Insights from History" coming to you … And I think there's some some concern with, with our audience about how do we move forward from this? You know, the … it falls apart before that, to some extent with people buying answering machines and not picking up. And you it was …

… William Colby has become a more or less forgotten figure in the turbulent … Vietnam. The South Vietnamese regime headed by Ngo Dinh Diem was problematic from the American perspective. Because … policies of the Ngo government. They urged Diem to adopt some sort of popular program to counter that …

… in Iran (1953), Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala (1954), Ngo Dinh Diem in Vietnam (1963) and Salvador Allende in Chile (1973). … support for opponents of the local regime. The overthrow of Diem began our descent into the hellish quagmire of the … property, the rule of law, a willingness to make political compromises and to accept the outcome of free elections. In …

… reportedly a casualty of the disease, although he did not die from it. Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San … Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple … that Justinian’s government had to direct the removal of bodies from the city and their mass burial outside the walls. …

… As China completes its takeover of Hong Kong, it should be remembered … Soon smugglers discovered they could make fortunes by buying Rolex watches and other contraband items in Tibet to … China’s rich and powerful were staking out opportunities by buying stock in Hong Kong apartments, houses, and companies. …

… came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … rural and urban: the daughter of King Edward III of England died of the plague in the summer of 1348. But quickly—at … survived the plague, her children tended to survive; if she died, they died with her. In the late 1340s, news of the …

… from Akin's, and President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to not make "health care decisions on behalf of … the accused woman's testimony to know whether the child had died in utero or had been born full-term and alive. When … to see abortion as an acceptable method of ridding their bodies of unwanted pregnancies and restoring their menstrual …