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… ill-fated revolution that ended with the re-imposition of Communist rule and the flight of some 200,000 Hungarians to … jeopardy. Though the Kremlin suppressed the revolution mercilessly after dithering for several days, the crisis in … (Source: Embassy of Hungary in the Netherlands) Numerous sites of memory—including a 1956 monument where Stalin’s …

… into law on April 3, 1948. The Marshall Plan, as it’s more commonly known, was intended to revive the economies of … Policy Planning Staff, and the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee reported on the continent’s dire economic state, … was “not directed against any country,” this statement was less a genuine olive branch to the Soviet Union than a …

… there is actually no evidence that Winthrop’s fellow passengers heard (or read) the essay as they made their way … seemed to me, foreshadows what the United States would become more than the Puritan outpost of Boston. After all, … ways distant from us today—but worth reckoning with nonetheless. As part of that project, Miller brought “A Model of …

… Bolivian Atacama region, mainly led by Chilean and British companies. The mineral was used both as a fertilizer and in … outnumbering Bolivian workers. Peru, for its part, passed a law in 1849 that brought thousands of Chinese … The end of the war came in stages.  After the brutal battles of San Juan and Chorrillos (January 13, 1881) and …

… of violence and instability until 1922. Multiple communities of former tsarist imperial subjects imagined the … Bolsheviks, but factions argued over degrees of autonomy. Poles imagined a future that might include Kyiv and that … in Ukraine in particular ways. Grappling with this Soviet past and disentangling the Ukrainian from the greater Soviet …

… glaring, because many people considered Paige the best pitcher who ever played. Throughout most of his career, he and … too frequently heard, “if only you were white,” as a compliment to their skills, but also as a reality check that … Satchel Paige as a forty-one-year-old rookie. Paige was past his prime, but to the Black community, that did not …

… across the whole of the Old World. It also maintains a commitment to the study of the ancient world from the perspective of peoples and civilizations that are often omitted (or … region's landscape, excavation records and field pictures, site plans, reconstructions of houses, as well as helpful …

… came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … apparently in wild rodent communities in the high passes of the Alps. The remains of Bubonic plague victims in … medieval Europe’s thinly disguised resource wars, as nobles and their men at arms attempted to replace rent with …

… Marco Polo Bridge Incident transpired a mere dozen or so miles southwest of Beijing’s Forbidden City in the vicinity of … post-1868 empire, including Korea and Taiwan . The Chinese Communist Party would be reborn and re-legitimized through … by which they still call it, “The China Incident.” As time passed, Japan’s broad goals of establishing an …

… deposed and executed, and, after a series of coups, power passed to Joseph-Desire Mobutu. Mobutu built an … performers such as Miriam Makeba, TPOK Jazz, and Tabu Ley Rochereau. An American film crew led by Leon Gast tagged along … knocked out an exhausted Foreman with a series of powerful combination punches. George Foreman vs Muhammad Ali, October …

… century the dead bodies themselves became precious commodities because the dissection of human cadavers for … when direct knowledge of anatomy had become a prerequisite for obtaining employment after medical school. … from their fresh grave was powerful enough that many burial sites at the time employed armed sentries to guard against …

… Iraq and suppressing internal resistance from indigenous Palestinian Arabs; and by an unsuccessful 1956 gambit by … ceasefires in 1949 and 1956, they failed to resolve the complex underlying Arab-Israeli controversies over … In November 1967, the Johnson administration achieved passage of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which …

… sympathize and collaborate with the enemy and engage in treacherous activities.  After a certain point, however, the … the nationalists under the leadership of  Mustafa Kemal Pasha (later Atatürk) had managed to organize an … forcibly resettled in a “homeland” most had never even visited.  The overall perception of Lausanne’s bloodless …

… His subsequent arrest, trial, and execution led to Brown becoming a martyr for the cause of liberty. The book’s final … over slavery to flesh out the narrative. These include the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, Preston Brooks wielding … of these men with someone like Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, or Dred Scott. This type of …

… first used the term in English, but “influenza” was not a commonly used term in England until the 1782 pandemic. 2. … sector, was a common phenomenon as many had been lost for service with the military. In late August 1918, the pandemic … signed certificate to enter and railroads would not accept passengers without them. Those who ignored the flu …

… Soviet counter-intelligence agency, for writing derogatory comments about Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in a private … Solzhenitsyn was arrested by SMERSH for writing derogatory comments about Stalin in a private letter. He portrayed one … experience. Political prisoners in Kengir, Kazakhstan , the site of a famous prisoner revolt. Solzhenitsyn portrayed …

… single kilometer. Although the only electric vehicle at the competition, the Jeantaud handily beat its gasoline-powered competition at the Parc Agricole d’Achères outside Paris. … Jeantaud electric car of 1898 reminds us that electric vehicles once were superior to gasoline cars. If they beat the …

… and many more, as the Times calls them hits on its website.   Patrick Potyondy   And so just to wrap up, do you … they're archived you know, Bill Gates has done one in the past and Barrack Obama, various other people. So I arranged … Adler    I'm Jessica Adler , currently a visiting researcher at Tufts University and I'll be starting work in August …

… 11/22/63 (2012) tells the story of Jake Epping, a schoolteacher given the chance to travel back in time to the 1960s … events of November 22, 1963, in Dallas. Conservative radio commentator Bill O’Reilly’s best-selling nonfiction book … perspectives of those on the ground including the Secret Service agents and the doctors who attempted to save …

… and the Equal Rights Amendment being well on its way to becoming the newest tenant of the US Constitution. But it was … Her mother had to work as a librarian, and then a teacher because our father struggled for work during the 1930s. … two ideologies that we have discussed at length in past episodes, Schlafly relied on her experience as a …

… the way forward. For more on Syria, see Origins’ two articles, “ Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising ” … of Syria," which can be found on the origins osu.edu website. Thanks for joining us, Ayse. Ayse Baltacioglu-Brammer … to education or some positions that they weren't in the past. But once they started to question those limits, …