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… June 29, 1613, during a performance of Shakespeare’s last history play Henry VIII: Or, All is True. A volatile … event 400 years later, the metanarrative of the Globe’s history takes on the qualities of a Shakespearean romance. …

… languages, and cultures today. He said, “Anyone who knows history has to agree that what those people [the Spaniards] … the victory to Cortes (1520).” Ultimately, the issues of history and narration in the fall of Tenochtitlan underlie … maintain a certain autonomy, communal identity, shared history, and ancestral connection to the traumas of 1521. …

… popular culture as posters, Advo cards, billboards, movies, books and magazine articles, television programs, and … have taken place in many places and times throughout history, and they are part of fairy tales and folk legends. … of modern life. More from the Author For more on the history of child abduction and the history of children in …

… in 1835: “The misery hardly finds a parallel in the history of commerce. The bones of the cotton-weavers are … analogies to Luddism can, admittedly, be found within the history of American labor . Perhaps the most striking … system was “a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized …

… Solzhenitsyn discovered by 1994 that the Soviet Union was history and that there were no longer any barriers to his physical return or the return of his books. He came home in a triumphal procession by train … talents made an indelible mark on twentieth century history. Scholars and students continue to marvel at the …

… Behind the tragic events in Darfur lies a complex history of deeply entrenched social inequalities, an … or states, of the Darfur region in western Sudan. A long history of internal migration, mixing, and intermarriage in … persisted throughout Sudan's colonial and post-colonial history. These inequalities are exemplified by the …

… see beyond fantasies about Greenland, one must look to its history and culture. Only then can we begin to understand … Norse and an implicit warning about the consequences.  The history of Greenland, told from an Inuit perspective, looks … comprising around 160,000 Inuit. From this viewpoint, the history of Greenland cannot be told separately from the …

… defiance, and horror. The event resonates in the history of a city that has long sat at the crossroads of … American casualties. As stated in the  U.S. Army’s official history , the destruction was regrettable, but “American … tank enters Fort Santiago. Again, the Army’s official history : “That the artillery had almost razed the ancient …

… Bradbury, Stephen and Matilda: the Civil War of 1139–53 (History Press, 2000). David Crouch, The Reign of King …