"Twice in recent years, America has lost loyal allies in the Middle East, the Shah of Iran and Anwar Sadat ...I don't think you can overstate the importance that the rise ofIslamic fundamentalismwill have to the
Why do Western commentators look at China's Belt and Road Initiative with Cold War prejudice, calling it a modern-day version of the U.S.-led Marshall Plan for post-World War II reconstruction in Europe, or the 19th century Great Game, in which Britain and Russia battled for control in ...
* Prison populations are small, with only the most violent offenders locked away for long terms. * Climate change, recognized as a problem in the 1980s, is being controlled with massive investments in renewable energy sources. * Nuclear disarmament, begun with the collapse of the Soviet Union ...
Anne Henrietta Martin was an American reformer who was an ardent feminist and pacifist in the early 20th century. Martin attended Whitaker’s School for Girls in Reno, Nevada, and the University of Nevada (B.A., 1894). She then enrolled in Stanford (Cali
That's why we founded the University of Austin— America's first new top university in almost a century. And we are now accepting students for our inaugural class in the fall of 2024! In this episode, three of UATX's founders — myself, UATX President Pano Kanelos, and world-renowned ...
were assigned. In either case, Noyes pioneered a form of spiritual eugenics not entirely dissimilar to the physical variety that would arise in the early 20thcentury. By 1845, when the new reforms were up and running and his Oneida community first beginning to flourish, Noyes had developed a ...
Woody encroachment, also referred to as shrub invasion or afforestation, has been occurring in North American grasslands throughout the past century and affects many regions of the Great Plains in Canada, the United States, and Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert (Van Auken 2009; Symstad and Leis 2017;...
The 250 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century So Far The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time “The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach,” he said in a1932 campaign speech...
physical as well as biological systems. In Latin America, different studies point to an average increase of mean surface temperature of nearly 0.10 °C per decade during the last century, but studies that focus on the second half of the century find an even higher increase per decade (IPCC...
Immigrants, mostly of Jewish heritage from central and Eastern Europe, originally “invented Hollywood” because most turn-of-the-century middle- and upper-class Americans viewed cinema as lower-class entertainment. After their parents emigrated from Poland in 1876, Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack ...