An election was scheduled in two years’ time to unify Vietnam, but the U.S., fearful that a national election would lead to communist rule, ensured it never took place. “The ‘temporary’ division of the country at the seventeenth parallel into two ideologically-opposed states meant that ...
Civil War Chronology 2024 Wall Calendar A daily chronology of major events of the Civil War are accompanied by vintage photographs by such renowned photo artists as Mathew Brady in this informative 2024 calendar. Captions provide historical background for each image, and quotations of first han ....
As I walked up to the judge to receive my first place shining, gold trophy (奖杯), I realized that dance is not about becoming the best. It was about loving dance for dance itself, a getaway from all my problems in the world. Shanda showed me that you could let everything go and ...
which became a center for recreation for the growing city. Here, from the late 1800s to World War I, you could take a steamboat from North Avenue up the river to visit a beer garden or an amusement park
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• Tickets must be purchased in advance for the Oak Hill Cemetery Tour: Black Civil War Veterans from 2 to 4 p.m. at 1605 Oak Hill Ave. Local historian Jeanne Klein will meet participants on the south side of Section 1 and travel through the historic parts of the c...
In 1864 President Lincoln was up for re-election. His performance in the war was the main issue of the election. Heavy losses for the Union army increased public opinion that the war should be over. The country was war-weary. In a final push to defeat the Confederate armies, Lincoln appo...
Tessellations are patterns of carefully juxtaposed, non-overlapping shapes—like the multicolored tiles of a mosaic—that fill a given surface. They have been used throughout history, from ancient architecture to modern art, and are frequently found in the works of M.C. Escher. Regular tessellati...
Today the Unit publishedMonitor84,providing analysis of constitutional events over the last four months. In this post, which also serves as the issue’s lead article,Meg RussellandAlan Renwickargue that while Rishi Sunak promised to place constitutional propriety at the forefront of his government, ...
2025’s Venus retrograde in self-centered Aries (March 1 to 27) and gullible Pisces (March 27 to April 12) could mean that your prince or princess may revert into a wretched frog right before your eyes. Don’t slip into denial. This is a time to take an unblinking look at reality wh...