History of Right-Wing Afrikaner Politics in South Africa Series: FORCING A NEW SOUTH AFRICA. Part 4 of an Occasional Series Examining the Problems of a Country Makinf Historic Transition from Segregation to Democracy. Second of 2 Articles Appearing Today...
Since its inception Social Purity was criticized, not without reason, as morally repressive. Women like Deborah Leeds, whose husband, Josiah, was an ally of the nation’s chief censor, Anthony Comstock, herself personified the movement’s censorship wing with her Department of Pure Literature. How...
he received a Pulitzer Prize for his multi-volume biography of Lee in 1935. Freeman was very influential, teaching at the Army War College for seven years. Respectful study of Lee’s campaigns has been a feature of U.S. Army curricula right up to the present. Only recently has ...
Today the terms “left wing” and “right wing” are used as symbolic labels for liberals and conservatives, but they were originally coined in reference to the physical seating arrangements of politicians during the French Revolution. The split dates to the summer of 1789, when members of the...
history of Tuvalu, a survey of notable events and people in the history ofTuvalu, from ancient times to the present day. Tuvalu, located in the west-centralPacific Ocean, is composed of nine smallcoralislands scattered in a chain lying approximately northwest to southeast over a distance of so...
Inthehistory ofthatterriblewar,wewill forever remember the words of the guards: even though the country was enormous, [...] daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org 在这场可怕战争的历史中,我们将永远牢记这些卫士 们的话,即纵然国土辽阔,一平方厘米也不能放弃, 因为整个国家对我们来说都是神圣的。
Historic photograph of Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., on 17 December 1903 After obtaining a patent on the wing-control mechanism and securing sale contracts with the U.S. and French governments, the Wrights made their first public demonstration flights in 1908...
of 1.00 are indicated with an asterisk. Male display strategies in core birds-of-paradise according to (Frith and Behler 1998) are indicated by boxes to the right of the taxon names (red = lek, blue = exploded lek, black = solitary). Question marks to the right of the boxes indicate ...
Lt. Edward Bezursik (Buzz) Pilot of Crew 16, Ens. John McKinnon CoPilot/Navigator in the right seat, Ens. James Bloomer CoPilot/Navigator at the navigators table, Russell Roberts Plane Captain watching instruments, Charles Alison in the bow turret, Mike O'Mally on radar, Harold Hohlman ...
The peasants’ lot became the worst ever. In 1804, however, under TsarAlexander I, the peasants of Livonia were given the right of private property and inheritance; a bill abolishing serfdom was passed in Estonia in 1816 and in 1819. Other agrarian laws followed—in particular that of 1863 ...