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… through the city of Paris from the Temple, the fortified medieval monastery where he was imprisoned, to the Place de la … and Navarre, c. 1779. He traveled in the mayor's coach accompanied by his confessor, Henry Essex Edgeworth de … his hair. Louis addressed the crowd in a clear voice, “I die innocent. I pardon my enemies and I hope that my blood …

… Celebrity .  Fred Inglis, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield, is the author of more … sources and meanings of modern celebrity.       His basic points are two.  The first—also his "most pointed moral"—is … of intense familiarity with distance.  This is the "compound" that makes the celebrity sacred in modern society: …

… 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 …

… policy in the U.S., Europe, and across the world have become fierce and deeply divisive, to say the least, and will surely continue to dominate politics in the coming years. All the while, lives are in the balance as … President for Programming of the Association for Jewish Studies, the leading international Jewish Studies organization. …

… significant opposition, the Bush administration quickly complied with the terror-list demand (in return for certain … recommended caloric intake and families tried to survive on diets of weeds, roots, and bark. "Today," began one official … not even imagine being disloyal to Kim Il-sung. When he died I was sad much as when my father died." Evidence …

… Dozens of women soldiers are dying in Iraq — and no one seems to care. Why do I say that? Because the outcry that many expected over the combat deaths of American women in Iraq has not taken place. … which centuries-old American fantasies about the female soldier are being tested. Women soldiers have always had a …

… storm which these swells...told us in unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather … surge, and thirty-three of those sheltering in the house died. The best estimates of the death toll are at least … vanished. At St. Mary’s Orphanage, 90 children and ten nuns died; only three children survived. Beyond the tragic losses …

… a very different matter. Unfortunately, bad analogies have come to dominate discussions of China in the American press. A disturbing number of commentators have been implying or stating outright that … China would do now that its second Communist “Emperor” had died. As the debate over the so-called “China threat” to …

… we could, you know, leave the house and not really have to come back until it was time for dinner. We could ride our … she decides to give in and have some fun and does drugs and dies. Brionna Mendoza (laughing) Oh my god. What kind of … her heart rate off, and she went into cardiac arrest and died. And so like I was telling Jon, I was like, yeah, …

… of the nation that Catherine had begun. Many, many died and many were killed. Then in 1954, Khrushchev … kind of history for the long-term perspective. One of the points I was thinking about in terms of why this event takes … and Leticia Wiggins. Find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu . And you can find us on Twitter, …

… national politics as much as many fear? The answer is more complicated than you might think. Check out a lesson plan … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , produced by Origins: Current Events … Wiggins. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, …

… attempting to draw lessons from history to support their points of view. While many examples from history are … terrain. When the war did not progress as planned, military commitments escalated. America’s credibility had to be … of the so-called “lessons of the past” presently being bandied about. It concerns the West’s response to the …

… Nicholas Breyfogle:   Hello, and welcome to Early Encounters with Penguins brought to you by the … Humanities. Ellen is a very prolific author in medieval environmental history and global water history. She's … where they're describing these birds for the first time points out as early as the 1500s that when you look at them …

… on Prologued...   Alexander Aviña  So it's a really, like, complex, messy matrix, right? So I don't want to say that … 19th and 20th centuries. And there are many other case studies that we simply didn't have the time to examine and … know, prescribed by doctors, and they, you know, were ingredients in products like Coca-Cola. But as immigration picked …

… every piece was in place for this circular pasta to become a staple of the American diet. By 2010, over 150 million cans of SpaghettiOs were … advertisement. Food was “for strengthening [peoples'] bodies” one expert claimed, “not for the gratification of …

… The writer Walter Benjamin once suggested that "History decomposes into images, not narratives" and Clare Pettitt … to Livingstone's servants Susi and Chuma. Livingstone died shortly after being so famously found and it was they … a celebrity figure until his death in 1904. And as Pettitt points out it was Stanley's portrayal of "darkest Africa" …

… This presentation commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster … in their homes nearby. It is estimated that 10,000 people died instantly, and survivor organizations estimate that … what we see in these images from the 1970s at different points of time, different kinds of cost cutting was done. …

… to start with: What do Americans fund every year at levels comparable to annual budget of the Pentagon? Answer: the … to be an enormous enterprise; and second, we don't have a comprehensive sense of its history. Until now. Philanthropy … ought to do most of what government now does. But as Zunz points out, even in Herbert Hoover's day "the nonprofit …

… the 1700s, European smallpox epidemics seem to have been comparatively mild, with minimal death rates. But thereafter … in the Punjab in Western India (now Pakistan) 47 percent died. As recently as 1972, an epidemic broke out in a … were hospitalized, and nearly half the 764 patients died. Similarly, of 79 unvaccinated patients who became ill …

… how his actions fit into the Church's traditions and its commitment to social justice. Listen and explore hundreds of … fall flat because they're missing a number of really key points. And one of which is kind of the premise of your … Trinity or, you know, belief in Jesus As the Son of God who died for people's sins or any of these kind of what I would …