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… vanished. There were many “ends” to the Viking Age, but one most often cited is the correlation between the spread … slayings.  Kinship ties were also immensely important, for one often needed community support at the assembly to win a legal case. Thus, …

… a crisis for refugees) neglects two fundamental issues. One consideration is that, since 2011, most Syrian refugees … face an uncertain future in the sprawling Dadaab camp complex in Kenya barely register on the radar of the global … flour in the Dakhla refugee camp in Algeria ( right ). One of today’s biggest political and ethical questions …

… Dr. Dr. Daniel Rivers: Thank you so much and welcome to our webinar for Indigenous Peoples' Day. It's … hi?  Dr. Melissa Beard Jacob (she/hers): Sure. Hello, everyone. Boozhoo. Awunkoquay ndishnikaaz. Hello everyone my traditional name is Awunkoquay or Woman in the …

… going to be harder than ever to see that we are witnessing one of the most extraordinary developments in recorded … almost fully yoked themselves together under a single encompassing charter. What's more, the boundaries of the … that commentators are stressing as they assess the one-two punch the European constitution has just absorbed. …

… new allegations against powerful men emerge as more women come forward. But, while many are heralding the rise of the … Jessica Vinas-Nelson   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … harassment in the US and the movements to fight it. Via phone we have historian Dr. Kimberly Hamlin from Miami …

… Nicholas Breyfogle: Hello and welcome to "Postwar Decolonization and Its Discontents." … and I'll be your host and moderator today. Welcome to everyone, and thank you so much for joining us.  After the Second … at a later date on YouTube and made available to everyone who has registered for the webinar. Also, we'd like to …

… to be a boon or bane to humanity remains to be seen. But one thing is certain: now is not the first time that humans … in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American … the workers whose lives are changed by new technologies. One commercial advertisement for Lumen, “ The Platform for …

… were named to honor a German naturalist who made exactly one brief visit to the United States early in the nineteenth century, but whose adventures and accomplishments were so much admired they made him an … Most people have some passing familiarity with Darwin; one suspects that many students at the California State …

… on Drugs, it isn’t colonial China or Japan or Mexico that comes to mind…it's the United States. And for good reason. … from the United States. Simply put, without American money, equipment, and guidance, a worldwide War on Drugs … West Coast. But an import tax is meaningless without someone to enforce it. Sarah Brady Siff So the fact that opium …

… in a stalemate with Axis troops north of Rome. With a commanding view of the narrow approach to the Po River … as an honor guard for homebound Brazilian soldiers. One participant recalled how each American called to the … were instructed to avoid the masses, perhaps to avoid, as one American veteran postulated, the possibility of being …

… One year ago, on January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake … dying lay beneath the rubble and remains of their homes and communities, American televangelist Pat Robertson stated … Haitian relief because, as he put it, why should he give money to people "who got themselves in such a predicament in …

… to an oil bonanza, the government was able to spend more money (in absolute terms) from 1974 to 1979 than in its … “ dame dos ” (“give me two”). Politically, the country was one of only three democracies in Latin America in 1977, … in 2016. Diphtheria, once thought eradicated, has made a comeback . By some estimates, 2.5 million people have left …

… Leticia Wiggins   Welcome to History Talk produced by Origins , a project of the … hope you enjoy what you find. I'm Leticia Wiggins, one of your co-hosts and welcome to this week's History … for having me. Patrick Potyondy   We're lucky to have not one, but two Patrick's on the show today. Our second guest …

… The process of surveying is a very repetitive one requiring an almost obsessive attention to detail, a commitment to exacting measurements, and above all a patient … of territory in small 20 foot segments, it does not strike one as the most suitable subject for an exciting story. …

… on human activity. Although rains this past winter have done their part to mitigate the worst of the drought, over … in an effort to reduce daily consumption: gardens have gone unwatered and people showered with buckets to catch the … is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a …

… crippled by the walkout, President Ronald Reagan issued one of the most important statements of his presidency. He … confrontation, we live in a nation much different from the one over which Reagan presided. The Cold War is no more. The … legacy with which Americans will sooner or later have to come to terms: today we live in a society of greater …

… As the majority of reformers advocated for what they called one-reform-per-generation, they thought it would be too … Association, a universal suffrage organization that I mentioned in Episode 1, and when women were excluded from the … call the Anthony Amendment, and what would eventually become the 19th Amendment. But not for a long time. California …