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… War on Drugs intersected with the Cold War by examining domestic politics in Thailand and Mexico during the 1960s and … and Mexico   Brionna Mendoza Previously on Prologued … James Bradford The United States essentially becomes one of the major contributors to Afghanistan's …

… policy debate on Oct. 22, nuclear weapons are sure to come up, especially Iran’s ambitions for the bomb. But the … since President Eisenhower.”   But Reagan had some prerequisites. In 1986 the United States Senate had yet to ratify … an improved science of nuclear-test detection that is far superior to what existed at the time of Reykjavik. For …

… investigating reports of UFOs. To this end it instituted a comprehensive study of UFOs.  This study, known as Project … “misinterpretation of known objects.”  Nevertheless, it recommended continued investigation of all sightings.  Project … nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union and was the most comprehensive and involved effort to study UFOs.  Project …

… are also experiencing moderate to severe drought, and this comes on the heels of a very dry decade. This long drought has … disease, malnutrition, and warfare. Long inhabited sites were abandoned as the desperate populations wandered … Indigenous Communities …

… United States in Vietnam two centuries later, Britain, the superpower of its day, was humiliated by what the on-screen … fire until ranks are broken and desperate hand-to-hand combat ensues. These scenes, realistic and at times surreal, have a powerful and salutary cumulative effect. …

… Bakken oil-shale region in western North Dakota to a tank complex in Illinois. Its route crosses the Missouri River … greater poverty and isolation. In the 1930s Collier (now Superintendent of Indian Affairs) reintroduced a limited … The thousands of protesters encamped near the DAPL site use sweat lodges and burning sage to purify themselves …

… Leticia Wiggins  Hello everyone and welcome to our webinar on 100 years of women and the vote. I'm … half. So women were not only voting there, a lot of times they were being elected. So Kansas had the first female … no women were voting prior to this point. And I think it's super important for us to drive home the point of how …

… In 1985, it seemed the Soviet Union would last forever. Its Communist Party rulers held a monopoly on political power. … and erratic (often drunken) behavior, shock therapy discredited liberal reforms. People began to look for a … to an end. Even more unexpectedly, one of the world’s two superpowers also came to an end. Since the October …

… Sandino was still at large, but the national guard had come under the control of Anastasio Somoza. Somoza then used … United States got what it wanted in the short run – an anti-communist regime – but the oppressiveness of the Somoza clan … necessary for a democratic political order. That must come from the Iraqi and Afghan people themselves. The Bush …

… and insufficient pressures by the U.S. and Soviet superpowers to deter regional military violence. Laron … administrations that deemed the application of force a welcome distraction from domestic problems. At the same time, … the military and the resulting decisive Egyptian defeat discredited Nasser, the erstwhile hero of the 1956 Suez Crisis …

… legacies that acts of violence leave on individuals and communities, and the importance of remembering and … captured from fleeing columns were transported to detention sites in schools and warehouses in towns and villages nearby … killings, Bosnian Serb forces attempted to hide their crimes by reburying the bodies in secondary graves scattered …

… supply global agriculture with one of its most important commodities: synthetic fertilizer. In the process, the … air pollution in the country. During the 1960s, however, complaints by farmers and ranchers eventually forced … has dire health consequences for any worker that comes into contact with it. Breathing its fumes causes severe …

… Crash in the heart of the world’s financial center has been superseded by a far worse and all-too-literal Great Crash … often  since the attack on the World Trade Center, but a comparison of the Black Tuesdays of 1929 and 2001 is equally … a level of fear that has been reached in only a few other times in American history. “The only thing we have to fear is …

… Contemporary televised sport, in many ways, has become a better fan experience than being there live. You get a perfect view of the action at all times; you get stats and replays; you avoid crowds, lines, … everyone involved to both achieve a small-screen experience comparable to being there and agree that doing so was in …

… collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Central Asia has become an increasingly important pivot in international … threats as well as important possibilities. They are sites for a potential rise in radical Islam; for a freer … and political ally. Even though Russian politicians at times speak with grand references to the imperial legacy, …

… 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.  … car of 1898 reminds us that electric vehicles once were superior to gasoline cars. If they beat the gasoline …

… in China’s internal affairs, repulsive as they may sometimes be to us. This will be especially difficult because a … anywhere else. To endanger our relations with a potential superpower over the question of how it governs its own … who were then fighting the founders of today’s communist government, a deployment almost unknown to …

… consequences to explain how individual ambition served the common good. It’s not from the benevolence of the butcher, … intend to stimulate American consumption with the cheap credit their savings created.   When Republican and … year-end bonuses, they intended to reward and encourage superior performance. Totally unintended was the creation of …

… principles.  The Congress hoped to avoid the "bigotry, superstition and deep-rooted prejudice" that characterized … citizens . . . if we have good laws, well executed."    James Madison also wanted "to invite foreigners of merit and … would contribute to the "wealth and strength of the community."    Similarly, John Laurance of New York declared …

… flicks, and political propaganda.  Others have played games in which the player could personally participate in the … of the text.  In examining roughly two hundred years of comic, filmic, propagandic, and literary portrayals of the … Absolutely, as the early, racially charged issues of Superman illustrate. Would the proliferation of weapons of …

… my guests are historians. We look back and study what has come before and  this …this is a decidedly forward looking … Sarah Paxton, and thank you for listening to  Prologued . (Credits.) This season of Prologued was brought to you by … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …

… of 2013. Thanks to the explosion of electronic forms of communication, even since the election of Benedict in 2005, … blindfolded boy, dressed in white, chose one of the three names from a chalice. It was Tawadros (the Arabic form of … ornate cathedral became popular viewing on YouTube and news sites on the web. For Copts, however, it was God who made …