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William Shakespeare

The Globe Theatre: Shakespeare Lost & Found

… 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. …
Minaret Islam Khoja in Khiva

A Postcard from Khiva, Uzbekistan

… in the world, has all but disappeared. This is the modern history of Khorezm, the fertile region that unfolds along … one of the worst environmental disasters in contemporary history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and … Khorezm itself claims more than two millennia of recorded history: a precious “jewel” in the middle of the …
The Nuremburg Map of 1524 is the earliest known European visualization of Tenochtitlan

The Fall of Tenochtitlan

… 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. …
View of Tbilisi as seen from Narikala, the city's medieval citadel.

A Postcard from Georgia and Azerbaijan

… The Caucasus Mountains are one of history’s great transition and contact regions, crossroads … the Aragvi lies the ancient Svetitskhoveli Cathedral, whose history is inextricably linked to Georgia’s conversion. View … turned out to have an impressive collection of works of history and literature in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and …
From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.

Top Ten Origins: Climate Change

… species. Global climate has changed a lot over Earth’s history. At least twice during the Proterozoic (2.5 billion … may have covered the planet. At other times in the Earth history, climate was much warmer, with no ice caps or … evolved during the Pleistocene Epoch, a cold time in Earth history marked by long ice ages and shorter, warmer …
a billboard with flags of many countries and the word Peace on it.

A Conscientious Objector Looks Back

… ifdischarge, repeatedly if repeatedly there was asking any history of illness at him with the mattress and got him up … and another ence., and providing testimoniesthere was any history of illness 1n in Edwards family, anything that … in America, which episodically chronicles the Quakers history once studied at Boston under the or latethe whether …
Happy 2nd Lieutenant William Robertson and Lt. Alexander Sylvashko, Soviet Army, shown in front of sign [East Meets West] symbolizing the historic meeting of the Soviet and American Armies, near Torgau, Germany, 1945.

Top Ten Origins: The Best Moments in U.S.-Russian Relations

… “enemies” as American political and media elites contend? History tells us otherwise. Although the bad episodes are … moments as well. These constructive episodes complicate a history that is often painted as invariably antagonistic. …

Child Kidnapping in America

… 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 …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd

… 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 …

Human Rights at a Crossroads

… showing the members of the League of Nations throughout its history. One NGO in particular was the International … as the most comprehensive call for human rights in modern history. Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt holding the …
Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

… 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 …

'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict

… 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 …

Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making

… by common religious beliefs, tribal alliances, and a history of independence from colonial domination. The … Other analysts might venture even further back in history to 2004, when the first of six wars between the … fathers etched their place as immortal heroes in the history of the Yemeni republic. As the members of this …
Heroin bust.

Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3)

… Global Drug War. You've got the laws that are all on the books at the beginning of the 20th century. But I think it's … States that reverberates throughout all aspects of its history that followed…including its trajectory on drug … drugs; it is a victim of drugs. Throughout this entire long history, the drug war has acted to reconcile these …
Palais de Beaulieu

The Theological Third Way in Latin America

Review of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left, by David C. Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)