Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advocates equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender persons, and queer persons—and calls for an end to discrimination against LGBTQ persons in employment, credit,
The General Court is made up of 2 judges from each member state, also appointed by consensus of the states. The court sits in chambers usually consisting of 3 or 5 judges and occasionally of 1 judge. It may also sit as a Grand Chamber of 15 judges for especially complex or important ...
Read The Jews of France: A History from Antiquity to the Present now at Questia. E Benbassa - 《History Reviews of New Books》 被引量: 85发表: 2001年 Orders of magnitude: A history of the NACA and NASA, 1915-1990 This is a history of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (...
JINAN, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Historians are known to butt heads, but on the opening day of the 22nd International Congress of Historical Science (ICHS) in the eastern Chinese city of Jinan, the consensus was that China's history mattered. This year is the first time that the ICHS, argu...
Long reduced to silence, the memory of the African slave trade began to emerge in the aftermath of the Second World War. Although it is now being recognized symbolically through memorial laws and national and international commemorations, its...
The second section retraces much more familiar ground, summarizing the ten points that I included in the Washington Consensus. This is followed by an account of the reception given to the term, and the analysis. The next section tries to account for the fact that the term became used in ...
In both of these venues, a strong consensus was that JUNE should avoid compromising its standards of high quality for the sake of having more issues. Further, JUNE should be cautious about aligning with an established publishing company if this would in any way compromise its ability to ...
In September 1949, when the birth of New China was in sight, the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference reached a consensus on the political system of the new country, that is, making the National People's Congress the highest organ of state power. ...
The consensus is that the wealthiest Americans benefitted most from the Bush-era tax cuts. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concludes that the tax cuts increased the after-tax income of the highest-income Americans by a far greater percentage than was enjoyed by middle- and low-incom...
The mint julep consensus: An analysis of late 19th century Southern and Northern textbooks and their Impact on the history curriculum In the decades after the Civil War, Southerners wrote and published their own history textbooks for secondary schools. These "mint julep textbooks," as the Southern...