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… they evolved over time? When, how, and why did abortion become such a controversial topic in the United States? How … are Mytheli Sreenivas, associate professor of Women's Studies and History at Ohio State University, Allison Norris, a … Sokolsky. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more at our website …

… on. As we celebrate Earth Day, Origins offers ten essential points to know about climate change on Earth. 1. Snowballs … gasses drove rapid changes in global climate. Faster computers and better climate models have improved forecasts … temperature trend has been confirmed by many subsequent studies. The Earth is already warming. The ten hottest years …

… a villain and his henchmen threaten the safety of a western community, whose cowardly citizens cringe in the face of … Lebanon to save it from destructive fighting, American soldiers became the targets of warring parties; 241 Marines died in a terrorist bombing, and Reagan quickly pulled out …

… came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … rural and urban: the daughter of King Edward III of England died of the plague in the summer of 1348. But quickly—at … survived the plague, her children tended to survive; if she died, they died with her. In the late 1340s, news of the …

… dying lay beneath the rubble and remains of their homes and communities, American televangelist Pat Robertson stated … Boukman's revolt quickly blossomed into the largest, bloodiest slave uprising in history. By the end of September, … conflicts, in 1802, the French captured Louverture who died in 1803 while in French custody. Naturally, the French …

… August 19, 14 CE, the most influential man in Roman history died. Augustus began his career by fomenting a civil war, … forming a military junta, then violently eliminating any competition before fighting the other members of the junta. … of what common Romans might have thought, surely, the soldiers who died with gashes in their thighs or fractured …

… barley ( left ) and hops ( right ) are the acceptable ingredients in beer according to the  Reinheitsgebot.   Half a … a city in present-day Bavaria, limited the acceptable ingredients in beer to “barley, hops, and water.” At the time, a … the price of beer per Maß (a Bavarian liter) and to limit competition for cereal grains used to bake bread. A …

… delegation to Sochi. Inadvertently, the Sochi games have become the gay games. Homosexuality in Russia Today The … fall under the law, or are statements to a broad public audience grounds for prosecution? What exactly is a “warped … that Putin wishes to display to both domestic and foreign audiences has already been tarnished—for Russians, by …

… arts. Beginning in 1954 at the age of thirteen Lee studied the Wing Chun style of kung fu in Hong Kong under legendary master Ip Man. From that point on, Lee studied a variety of martial arts styles, testing them out in … after Lee challenged anyone who doubted his word to come to his studio in Oakland. Russo makes his case by …

… face an uncertain future in the sprawling Dadaab camp complex in Kenya barely register on the radar of the global … Somalia must first walk for weeks across a desert and many die along the way or soon after arrival. This mass gravesite … called into question, with asylum as one of the pressure points, against the backdrop of the other crisis—that of …

… a chronic condition that can have serious, life-threatening complications if left untreated. Diabetes is caused when the … concoctions of herbs and seeds and, by the 18th century, dietary changes. In 1870, French pharmacist Apollinaire … most famously observed the importance of a sugar-free diet during the Franco-Prussian War. Research into the …

… of the Center for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies. This lecture is a part of the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies' "Understanding the War in Ukraine: Weekly Wednesday … of the Center for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies here at Ohio State University. And I am really pleased …

… unrest that followed. To explain this food crisis to an audience in St. Louis in May 2008, then-President George W. … top of that came the failure of the rains and the peasants died en masse , so that entire villages were left … the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company controlled an increasing swath of territory across …

… NATO “officially” ended its combat operations in Afghanistan in late December 2014, but … Crews ,  Scott Levi , and Alam Payind about Afghanistan’s complex history to ask what the past of these peoples and … about it for us.   Robert Crews   Those are all excellent points. I think that I would defer to Afghans who've lived …

… *which* Roman decline and fall is the best parallel. Some commentators prefer the fall of the Roman Republic as the … as an opportunity to remind readers of one of his key points by noting astutely, “Five centuries of Roman history … leads directly to the crisis of the present, “[Rome] had become a powerful metaphor to speak about the present and …

… international race for the arctic . He tells us about the complex and perhaps explosive historical dimensions of … Jeffrey Dunifon. Thanks for being on the show, Nick and welcome.   Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Thank you so much, Patrick. … mean is that we may have to give up some of the great goodies that we have, you know, at the moment, I mean, I think …

… new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the … Ohio State University's Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, where she specializes in African American … Vinas-Nelson, song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcast and more on their website …

… of the sort espoused by Richard Rorty. The maneuver is a common one from the perspective of positivism. In The … monstrous infamy that is antisemitism. But it is useless, completely useless.” However, Lipstadt stops short of … Memory ( right ). I find this lamentable, because Lipstadt comes very close to finding the middle-ground solution …

… and dangerous, amplifying the sense of tension and competition across Europe and strengthening the sense of … the former communist territory. One of the main sticking points of re-unification, however, was that if East Germany … the Western alliance. Clinton pushed a new partnership embodied in the NATO-Russia Founding Act signed in May 1997, …