Encyclopedia Wikipedia American pit bull terrier n. A dog of a medium-sized to large breed developed in the United States from the Staffordshire bull terrier. Originally bred for fighting, it has a muscular body, broad head with powerful jaws, short coat, and black, blue, or red nose. ...
Valley Forge was the third of eight Winter Encampments during the American Revolution. Discover why it was important enough to commemorate as a National Park. See the home of 18-year-old James Audubon, who was dispatched here (by his French father) to avoid conscription in Napoleon’s army. ...
Hezbollah said in a statement that at least 17 Israeli troops have been killed since the regime launched its incursion into southern Lebanon. The powers that could stop this war and genocide are all compromised (not talking about co-perpetrators US/UK/EU but the so-called BRICS): ‘The Bles...
During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution. I think ...
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence (South End Press, Mar 01, 2009) Something Torn And New: An African Renaissance by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (Basic Civitas Books, Feb 24, 2009) The Book Of Night Women by...
With their concentrated focus on the body in war, Restrepo and Infidel also mark an intervention into contemporary debates in the emerging doctrine of “bodiless war” or virtual war – what is known in war policy circles as the “Revolution in Military Affairs” (RMA). In contrast to the ...
In The Toll of Independence: Engagements & Battle Casualties of the American Revolution (1974), Howard H. Peckham provided the striking estimate that during the Revolutionary War, the British killed about 6,800 American soldiers—fewer than died in three days at Gettysburg. Other recent estimates ...
REVOLUTION AND REACTION After the whole group of colonies had long been left in salutary neglect by the British authorities, George III and his ministers undertook the creation of an imperial control; and Parliament was too much at the king’s command for opposing statesmen to stop the project....
Critics Consensus: The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution offers a fascinating -- if somewhat rudimentary -- introduction to a movement, and an era, that remains soberingly relevant today. Synopsis: Filmmaker Stanley Nelson examines the rise of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and...
A revolution in imaging methods improved diagnosis with x-rays, refinements in microscopy, endoscopy with fiber- optics, ultrasound, and several approaches using noninvasive computerized scanning and magnetic resonance imaging meth- ods. Yet another revolution, this one in surgery, introduced ways to ...