"The problem in teaching Stalinism," says Matthew Payne, a professor who specializes in teaching modern Russian and Soviet history at Emory University in Atlanta, "is how not to dismiss what was a very brutal regime while also contextualizing it in a very unstable part of world history. For ...
Over a decade, the Airbus A400M aircraft has confronted everything the weather can throw at it, confidently handled war-zone runways and bridged continents in its mission to provide protection, resilience and humanitarian aid. That astonishing versatilit
Morse knew just what to say. At the suggestion of a friend's daughter, he transmitted a quote from the biblical Book of Numbers: "What hath God wrought?" Dits and Dahs Made up of short and long tones, Morse code is still in use today. The short bursts are "dits" and the long ...
The hardest part of making a movie isn't finding a movie idea or even the development process of writing a good movie script. It's getting someone to fund the process of bringing the story to life (do you have a million dollars lying around to fund a movie?). Fortunately, my lawyer ...
He is his own worst enemy in many ways and it kills me to know that the train he is driving is heading to a bad place. I am pretty much done after many years of abject pain and mental mind space going to only one of my kids. It is time to invest in people who give back and...
While being battered by enemy fire, men on both sides had to keep courage and do their duties as well as they could. It is impossible to imagine what the British, French, and Spanish forces had to contend with during the battle, but some first-hand accounts can give an idea of the ...
To go full Winnie the Pooh in your writing, ask yourself a question like: What would happen if fear came knocking at your door? What if curiosity tapped you on your shoulder? What if this abstract idea was a god or goddess, your friend or your enemy? How would they behave? Let’s ...
Is getting a second Lethal worth the Wildcard slot, though? Not in our opinion. Most of the time, Lethals are used in desperation or as a way to deny enemy movement for a time, and even then, they are risky because of how vulnerable you are while using them. ...
But instinctively we know that death is our enemy. And no healthy person wants to die. So we wax philosophic and derive comfort from the axiom that “death is a part of life… (heavy sigh)”– Which it is not. Death is the cessation of life; this precious life being the gift of Go...
We useneither/norto negate each of two things. For example, you might say, “I speakneitherSpanishnorFrench.” This negative statement means that you don’t speak Spanish, and you also don’t speak French. You can use more than two options in aneither/norconstruction by adding an addition...