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… February 2015,  198 pilot whales stranded  in Golden Bay on the northern coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Hundreds … religious ways but their treatment of the beached mammals was very different. In the year 674, St. Philibert founded … full: Map of the Ile de Noirmoutier.   And at another time, when a great famine had begun to constrain the territory of …

… When news of Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency reached South Carolina on Nov. 8, 1860, … to protect "their institutions, from Abolition rule in Washington?"   Autumn 2010 marks the sesquicentennial of the …

… Throughout his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump held up Carrier, an air … that from happening. For Trump, bringing Carrier to heel was part of a broader pledge to stop the offshoring of … been a disaster for the American worker,” said Sanders. When asked if there was a single trade agreement that he …

… As the world considers how to respond to climate change, China … certainly predate the reform period, going back to 1949, when China's water resources were aggressively developed, … you will, and acute water usage in the past 30 or 40 years was layered on top of those traditional concerns. So it …

… Americans love their history, but seldom think historically. The problem is … use history to justify their views. So what do they do when the past disappoints? Or when historians tell them … tried to answer the question of whether the United States was founded as a Christian nation. I never know how my …

… Since the 1950s, there have been dramatic decreases in the … 2.5 billion people to 8 billion.   Yet in November 2022, when the human population reached 8 billion, the United … In 1996, at the first World Food Congress, the goal line was set at 2010. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), …

… we admitted a sad truth: bipartisanship is a noble idea in theory, but it fails in practice. The doomed reform package …   Obama’s conciliatory impulses, mind you, are good ones. When James Madison prepared a plan for the Constitution in … the position Obama holds today: that excessive partisanship was a serious problem for any republic. In fact, the …

… 15, 2014, NFL star Ray Rice and Janay Palmer, who were then engaged, were both arrested on assault charges in … an unconscious Palmer out of the hotel elevator. Rice was indicted on third degree aggravated assault charges, to … incident, however, erupted again in early September 2014, when TMZ released another video, this one of the fight that …

… When the Senate reconvenes Jan. 24 it will have to decide whether … follow Tea Party members right back to the founding era when it took only a simple majority to stop debate or pass a … rule; the power would be transferred to the minority."   It wasn't until the late 1830s that a few senator saw the …

… On the season premiere, we explore the idea of the "modern" War … 1980s.  As we will see, the development of the US drug war was deeply informed by experiences abroad...and to … classic 1980s childhood though, she remembers a lot of fear when it came to telling kids what they should and shouldn't …

… After more than four years of war, Yemen teeters on the brink of what the European Union has described as “the … origins of of the conflict really began during the 1960s when the Republic was first started and marginalizing these groups of Northern …

… American eyes have been riveted on North Africa and the Middle East these past months. The popular protests that … and Twitter helped spread the word in June 2009 that Iran was teetering on the brink of revolution, and as in Libya, … clash between civilization and barbarism, much as they did when Benjamin Labaree was gunned down in a mountain pass 500 …

… Listen as History Talk  explores the relationship between American university sports and the … of ironic quotation marks around the word amateur, right when you try to describe it, because it has always been … team lost a year or so, to a recruiting scandal that was relatively low stakes financially. It was related to …

… With his election as president of Turkey in August of 2014, the spectacular career of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has entered a … group known as Hizmet (“Service”) led by Fethullah Gülen was shattered in 2013 when Gülen-linked prosecutors uncovered evidence of …

… Edwards, finishing rowed his mattress hi, only weapon. the story,.•seems to notice If you Edward finishing the … [Conscientious Objector], your notice it. Ericthe Edwards was working an orderly at University Vietnam War. as Enc … gla.s, IV bottles at passer,by in Edwards remembers that when went for of conscientious objectors. Most government …

… When Ukrainian troops liberated the town of Borodyanka from Russian occupation in early … shells. The symbolism of the Russian attack on the monument was obvious. Taras Shevchenko is not just the founder of the …

… April 24, 2015 marks the commemoration of the 100 th anniversary of the Armenian … thousand and 1.5 million Armenian people. The result was the physical annihilation of the Armenian communities … to massacres most particularly in 1894 1896 actually a time when my grandmother and her family left the area. The …

… When Rev. Jerry Falwell met with a group of gay Christians recently, he found himself in the unusual position of being on the receiving end of … to attend Sunday services in his church.  While Falwell was meeting with gays in Virginia, preparations were being …

… As the international community struggles to respond effectively … falls squarely on China.   The way that the United Nations was originally designed explains why, today, China alone has … international action that might precipitate a world war.   When Great Britain and the United States developed the first …

… Protests continue to sweep across Belarus. By the end of 2020, more than 30,000 people had been arrested, … election (right). “I cannot understand how we could stop when people have suffered and continue to suffer,” one woman … divisions of Belarus. Modern Belarusian nationalism was one of the most recent to appear in Europe. The first …

… Photograph of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003. Mars, the red planet so … in the distant past, but the liquid disappeared eons ago when the atmosphere thinned. When we think about Martian … if the spacecraft had been yet another flyby. But Mariner 9 was an orbital mission. NASA scientists waited a few months …

… The story of Israel's foundation has often been told from … things up for discussion. Many of you submitted questions when you registered. However, if you're interested in asking … The broader question that the book tries to answer is, what was the role of Zionism in the State of Israel in the …

… Sonia Sotomayor is too liberal to serve on the Supreme Court — so, at least, say many conservative … for them to protest Sotomayor’s left-wing views, though, when the current Supreme Court is far more conservative than … party so unpopular it actually disappeared while he was in office. That didn’t stop him from making life …

… As COVID-19 has infected more than 90 million people in the first 13 months of the outbreak alone, governments … c.1292. In the 14 th century, people believed that the body was ruled by four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and … in his medical writings that health was only achieved when “these constituent substances are in the correct …