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… Whether Barack Obama or John McCain finds himself taking the oath of office on January 20, he won’t be the first … past, faced a situation closer to today’s mess: forgotten Martin Van Buren. When Martin Van Buren placed his hand on the Bible on March 4, …

… Black America.” The Black Panther himself is T’challa, the king of Wakanda, a mythical African nation that also happens … he was influenced in part by his trip to Lesotho. The small kingdom, surrounded on all sides by South Africa, avoided … death. Lee and Kirby had both served in World War II. Working in 1966 they were steeped in the science and technology …

… war in the Gulf A soldier named Tim McVeigh . . . ―Charlie King, The War is Coming Home , 1996 On April 19, 1995, a … carried out by a U.S. citizen on American soil. Charlie King’s antiwar anthem highlighted the connections between … called for undermining the state through bombings and assassinations. Over the next decade, they engaged in Turner …

… cooperation in foreign and defense policy.   Working with the governments in Great Britain, Australia, New … Canadian nationalists, most of whom lived in French-speaking Quebec and had no familial ties to Britain, were … centrist Liberal prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, denounced the ambassador’s ideas. Ottawa made its own …

… have the time to examine and address: charges of trafficking against communist Cuba, for example, or the long … War and Japan in the aftermath of the Opium Wars.   Miriam Kingsberg Kadia  I think it's also really important to note … than we are. And we really need to spend some time  unpacking the biases that come into these terms, particularly in …

… as a horse race, with Polk (second from left) shown as a bucking horse. Most observers expected former President Martin Van Buren to earn the Democratic nomination in 1844, … widespread unrest triggered by the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy (who had been running for the …

… status, imperial ambition, and military might. When Hittite kings displayed lions, tigers, wolves, leopards and bears; … from faraway lands appeared luxurious and spectacular. No king would be worthy of his crown without an elephant or a … gave sixty parrots and a macaw to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, setting a precedent for stocking European …

… issued a gag order preventing Drake officials from speaking about the subpoena. When word of this order spread, … War I. Other “scares” followed. From 1938 to 1945 Rep. Martin Dies of Texas, no defender of civil liberties, … communists were behind the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam war protesters. With …

… to life in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom—and shows how they helped shape the postwar world by … acculturation. The stories Judd tells are at once heartbreaking and restorative, and she vividly captures how the … to life in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and shows how they helped shape the postwar world …

… down segregation laws. Another two years and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., had emerged as a civil rights leader through the …

… did the most important court in England, the London-based King’s Bench, shut down completely in 1348 but in some … super-companies that were prominent moneylenders to the kings of Europe collapsed entirely. By some estimates, the … offices began meeting in alternate locations. While the King’s Bench in the capital did cease operations, those in …

… Dawn Staley tweeted, "More senselessness. Video is heartbreaking. How many more mothers will have to bury their sons and … into the Baseball Hall of Fame. In honor of the occasion, Martin Luther King, Jr. , noted his accomplishments in …

… hope for freedom has been embodied in that brave woman. Thinking that more than a decade of house arrest had ended Suu … is co-editor of the first two volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King and a writer for the History News Service. … …

… most of the news media covering the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and other black men doesn't usually … the interests of capital. So anyone who was you know, striking or protesting or advocating radical political ideas, … the exception of the riots that took place after Martin Luther King's assassination. Most of the riots that took …

… government consisting of both Shi'is and Sunnis, thereby making a deliberate effort to draw support from the Sunni … history) by Balami.   The defining crisis stemmed from the assassination of Ali (r. 656-661), son-in-law of the Prophet … father’s death 19 years later. Yazid proclaimed himself a king of the new Islamic empire by virtue of family ties. And …

… move the spotlight from the center to the periphery, from kings and popes to merchants and midwives, from inquisitors … crusade to take back Constantinople and the Holy Land. Kings such as Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire and … against him contrary to the wishes of their "master" the king of France.  The further irony with this pirating …

… U.S. national security. Ultimately, it would take the assassination of an American president to change this system … Russia in 1809–1814, he spent the majority of his time working as a de facto commercial agent for the wealthy New …

… U.S. armed forces beginning in 1948, fifteen years before Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Universal conscription …

… very large percentage of Koei games cover either the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history (2 nd -3 rd Century C.E.) … Of 41 playable characters, 32 were members of the three kingdoms of Wu, Shu, and Wei and have “Musou Modes,” i.e. … comes from the 15 th Century novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms , which itself was based on older histories dating …

… American self-understanding. For hundreds of years, looking beyond disasters has been the norm for American … Civil Rights Act of 1964. Among the guests behind him is Martin Luther King, Jr. The extension of democratic freedoms to …

… of 2019, for not only instigating the conflict but for stoking its fires long after they should have burned out. Some … These highlands are dominated culturally by the Semitic-speaking Amhara and Tigrayan peoples (Tigrayans constitute about … claim a continuous tradition stretching back to the kingdom of Axum in the medieval period and further back into …

… educational infrastructure. He promoted the concerns of working people as being at the top of his agenda. He was … the History News Service. He is writing a book on one of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s mentors, Benjamin Elijah Mays. … Randal …

… for one another with both our common humanity and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “beloved community” of faith. Similarly, Clinton, …

… Walt Whitman and Mark Twain, of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, Jr., is being replaced with stereotypes of …