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… one day after the author's arrival. ( United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees ) We came to Greece with only a … have been from these three countries. Nearly 60% of those arrivals were women and children, in sharp contrast to … Hisham, for example, were two Iraqi boys who often came to visit us while we were serving tea. Both fourteen, they had …

… of battleships that together constituted the Mediterranean division of the German Imperial Navy—opened fire on a … vessel. The sinking of two Russian ships by a German taskforce under the command of a German admiral improbably marked the entry of …

… survive in a changing world. The movie revolves around a visit by King George V and Queen Mary to Downton Abbey. George V’s reign marked a tumultuous time for Britain that witnessed not only the calamity of the … its effects: “My maid was rather curt with me, but she is a Communist at heart.” Mounted police clear demonstrators from …

… W. Bush — spanning almost 12 years — has exacerbated the divisions among Americans. Gerald Ford did the opposite when he became president after the … he appeared before a joint session of Congress and pledged “communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation” …

… is, and used this argument to weaken the campaign finance reforms passed after Watergate. One of the justices even … rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s … political spending with political speech is but the latest version of a very old argument. The money-speech …

… with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, the two rivals are at the same time members of a peace treaty that … prohibits all military activity? The unlikely source of common ground lies in the Antarctic Treaty of 1959. This treaty may appear obscure, but in reality it’s a model for achieving peace and disarmament on the Korean peninsula. …

… outside deck to get my first look at Cuba, a country that for so long seemed almost fictional. The United States’ … of Florida, yet American citizens have been restricted from visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the … the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: …

… horizons of empathy,” quickly became the dominant priority for people under German occupation. His conclusion, finally, … phases of the war affected daily life. Gossip about the latest news of the war mattered to people trapped in the … German soldier. Fritzsche is particularly interested in comparing the French and Polish accounts about sharing space …

… to “barley, hops, and water.” At the time, a growing taste for the pale and crisp styles of beer produced by adding … the price of beer per Maß (a Bavarian liter) and to limit competition for cereal grains used to bake bread. A … in the new German Weimar Republic . After the 1949 division of Germany into East and West states, it continued …

… men's basketball coach Bob Knight, nicknamed "The General," for defying university officials and for violating a "zero … rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … "his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." He visited New York City, where 7.5 million people gathered to …

… Published just before the November 2016 U.S. presidential election, Stephen … U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … circumstances, wishing to return home. Eleanor Roosevelt visits Hungarian Freedom Fighters in Salzburg, Austria, …

… from a television studio where Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Alexandr Vondra triumphantly hailed the … west became (if ambivalently for some) the second former communist-bloc state to assume the rotating presidency of … with U.S. politicians and businessmen during his time as a visiting professor in Chicago, helped win U.S. support for …

… Revolution--and learn that women in America have never been completely united.  … Trump. Think pieces blossomed overnight, denouncing the complicity and betrayal of white women to the feminist … to Seneca Falls, lived on the Seneca reservation. She was visiting the Seneca reservation in early summer and was …

… can make in a presidential primary campaign! Seven days before the Iowa caucuses, Howard Dean led the Democratic pack … of the Democratic Party” and propelled him ahead of his rivals. This development caused pundits from the Washington … Barry Goldwater of 1964. Dean should have taken the comparison seriously. Glaring parallels exist between the …

… present in the Alexander legends. The Egyptian tradition, for example, credited Nectanebo, the last historical pharaoh … birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … Persia. The Jewish and Arabic traditions relate Alexander's visit to Jerusalem and his founding of cities. In the Jewish …

… of scientific knowledge, and of political power. For the Mayan Empire, centered in modern Southeast Mexico, … Itzá, one of the central and sacred sites of the empire, visitors can both see and hear representations of two … Site. It stands as a vast historical source that enables visitors to glimpse the spiritual world, the scientific …

… walking amidst downed branches and scattered leaves, the newspaper headlines screamed that Lehman Brothers had … Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the combination of new technology with the "classically liberal" … money" of the gold standard, created the conditions for a worldwide boom in investment and production.  The …

… Throughout his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump held up Carrier, an air conditioning and heating company, as a symbol of the plight of American … Trans-Pacific Partnership ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to the state for a fundraiser. The figures depicted …

… very heart of the case. In amicus curiae briefs submitted for U.S. v. Windsor , children were a central focus in both … of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere—organizations that had come out of gay-father activism of the 1980s—wrote a brief … from their ex-spouses in order to keep their children or visitation rights. There were still dangers involved in …

… perpetually moving Nazca tectonic plate, the islands were formed through repeated volcanic activity. Layer by layer, … devoid of animal or plant life. This initial isolation, combined with its location at the confluence of three … that strikes me with wonder.” Even before Darwin’s visit, however, human beings had begun to shape the …

… Tom DeLay, Sen. John Cornyn, Phyllis Schlafly and others for the wholesale impeachment of judges of whose rulings … that “judicious conduct,” in the best sense of those words, comes from judges insulated from popular emotions. The … By contrast, DeLay’s proposal would stir bitter partisan division and increase the rancor of American politics. …

… storm which these swells...told us in unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather Service (NWS) is trusted to provide timely warnings for hurricanes to the residents of the United States. But … , while railroads brought the Texas cotton crop and summer visitors alike. But the city was built on a barrier island …

… is not quite as large as Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. It is also the second-most densely populated … the native Taiwanese and the 1949 mainland Chinese arrivals. Ma Ying-Jeou, Presidential Politics, and China In … Taiwan (where Ma grew up and went to college), Ma has never visited the Chinese mainland. After graduating at the top of …