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… single kilometer. Although the only electric vehicle at the competition, the Jeantaud handily beat its gasoline-powered … landmark win represented the dominance of electric vehicles at the turn of the 20th century.  France was an early … in the 1950s and 1970s.  In fact, in 1975, the U.S. Postal Service bought 350 electric Jeeps from American Motors for …

… economic growth. A poorer economy could be turned into a richer one via the right mix of foreign capital and expertise. … warned that the United States needed to demonstrate the opposite, and the existing machinery of aid was not up the … world in which we and our children shall live.”  Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 in September, and …

… faced off against the security forces, chanting, "Touche pas ma constitution! (Don't touch my constitution!)" and … starting. [Y'En A Marre] want change and their patience has come to an end. Prices are too high, the power fails all the … He still worried about a crackdown, but felt the mass outpouring on the streets might prevent it. His artist friend …

… movements; and the third being "crib-sheet books, the compilations, quote books, 'dictionaries' and … by arguing that grassroots activism, centered on anticommunism, played a central role in the rise of the American … must not stray from its religious foundations and values lest society collapse into anarchy," utilized within their …

… Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk, produced by Origins , a project of the … Surveillance , which is found on the origins.osu.edu website say hello, Dave. David Hadley  Hello. Leticia Wiggins  … to some of the other employees there and to giving them his passwords, as his explanation was, well, he needed that to …

… his empire. When Süleyman was made sultan, his kingdom encompassed the peoples and territories of the Balkans, Anatolia, the Levant, … Milestones …

… have led to blackouts across Moldova, Russian missiles have violated Moldovan airspace and crashed onto its … and her pro-EU party (The Party of Action and Solidarity, PAS) have worked to embrace Moldova’s Romanian heritage. … Anderson famously defined nationalism as an “imagined community” binding together a widespread group of people …

… Anslinger was largely silenced by critics as a more compassionate understanding of drug addiction as a medical … and Great Britain in the so-called the Opium Wars.     (Credits) Brionna Mendoza This season of Prologued was … Women’s Bloc” has all epsiodes streaming now on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and SoundCloud, as well as wherever else you …

… but the game itself made no money. Men’s college basketball commenced with a similarly obscure contest.  In 1895 at … of dollars and are instead being given no salary.” Congress passed Title IX in 1972 to give women equal opportunities in … view. “Part of the issue,” says financial analyst Daniel Rascher, “is that they blend the revenue from media deals. When …

… Children features a memorable adventure through the jungles of the Sundarbans, in whose labyrinths of mangroves the … main character Saleem rediscovers forgotten memories of his past, of India’s early years of independence, and the … of waterways serves as a metaphor for the subcontinent’s complicated post-colonial coming of age. Favoring academic …

… he stood on the shoulders of giants, so perhaps he’d welcome the gift.   Newton is famous for Principia Mathematica … all of God, but he was urged by some contemporaries to add passages on God’s place in his natural philosophy, in order … “Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.” …

… emerged as a spokesperson for a diverse global movement to combat the climate crisis following a spate of … In Chicago, a “garbage eating dragon ” accompanied marchers on their way to Civic Center Plaza. An event organized … the environment, followed. Between 1970 and 1975, Congress passed the Clean Water Act , the Water Pollution Control …

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the Golden … internet meme enthusiasts .  Once a  high school physics teacher in Chicago, the new pope is consequently at home in the …

… immigration from East Asia, like the Chinese Exclusion Act passed in 1882 as well as the Immigration Acts of 1917 and … power abroad. And that's no less true at home either.   (Credits) Brionna Mendoza This season of Prologued was … Women’s Bloc” has all epsiodes streaming now on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify , and SoundCloud, as well as wherever else you …

… miles in a straight line).  Plans for the women’s flight commenced three months earlier in August 1938. Valeriy … as navigator.  All women had broken flight records in the past. Only two months before the proposed flight, Raskova … back to the Rodina crew, which had been located by rescue services days earlier. The navigator had somehow survived …

… On March 20, 1924, the Virginia state legislature passed a series of devastating legislative initiatives.  The … one-sixteenth or more ‘negro blood’ and indigenous peoples as those having the same proportion of ‘ Indian blood … of rape. For Buck’s foster family and the doctors who recommended sterilization, a pregnancy out of wedlock was one …

… or environmental poisoning, for instance—COVID-19 was compelling “people everywhere . . . to put their immediate … took particular aim at social science, which not only trespassed across the divide between science and humanism but, … practices should be developed. A public school teacher in Des Moines, Iowa receives the COVID-19 vaccine in …

… America Pageant. As early as the 1880s, business owners and community leaders began organizing beauty pageants in … up by hotel owners to extend the summer tourist season past Labor Day, what this event really offered was a public … At 5’1 and 108 pounds, Gorman remains the youngest and smallest Miss America on record. Observers from around the …

… has proven itself mighty and tenacious to an international community that may have previously thought them quiet and … the world look to different historical figures in their past who embody strength, adventure, and other values … the Cossacks in his book The Kobzar : “Formerly the Kozaks cherished / Freedom and great glory. / Glory lives but …

… of 2021, then President Pedro Castillo, formerly a schoolteacher from the rural Andes, began what his administration … declared, the group trains “farmers, women, and indigenous communities in the use of improved technologies in current … and often worked on haciendas as  colonos  (tenant-peons),  pastores (sheepherders),  muleros (muleteers), and  obreros …

… Walking through Chichén Itzá, one of the central and sacred sites of the empire, visitors can both see and hear … deity: man, bird, and snake. He can be seen engraved on temples and walls in Chichén Itzá but he can also be heard. If … Chichén Itzá is now preserved as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It stands as a vast historical source that enables …

… and Eastern socialism—and, more importantly, between peoples of shared nationality—became irrevocably porous. But the events of November 9 did not come from nowhere. The fall of the Berlin Wall—as detailed … standing shoot order and let the Leipzing protesters pass unmolested. The impact of the decision was exponential: …

… an enterprising radio newsman unsatisfied with the comments from an obscure Midwestern astronomer, sped to … in Grover's Mill, NJ commemorating the “Martian landing site” of Welles’s broadcast. It was a fatal decision.  … even as Welles was running Mercury, a group of researchers at Princeton were conducting the first serious studies …

… its glow waxing and waning. The world in those days was far less polluted by background light than it is today: … of a satellite” to the world. Pravda put a distinctively communist spin on the news, arguing that “artificial … appeared) would be used for legitimate research and not for competition in what he called “an outer-space basketball …