IMAGES OF THE REVOLUTIONThe article presents several photographs from the Mexican Revolution in 1910, including one that shows armed men riding on horses, another of soldiers guarding a building in Mexico City, Mexico, and a dead man lying on the streets ...
The course looks at how particular depictions of Muslim women – asveiled,oppressed,constrainedand yetsexually alluring– have been used to legitimize political intervention and wars in three contexts: colonial Algeria, Iran before and after the Iranian Revolution, and Afghanistan since 2001. Why is...
The competition was good; each company’s R&D propelled the production of bigger and better slide shows. However, because everyone’s hardware did the same thing [think Ford versus Chevy], it got more difficult to for any individual slide-show company to stand out from the crowd; that ...
On the anniversary of the largest amphibious invasion in history, we remember the heroes who established the foundation to defeat the Nazis in WWII.
Then I started thinking, maybe there are others like me–people who want to learn as much as they can about a specific moment in history. Most history books, even ones about certain time periods such as the American Revolution or the Civil War, are trying to cover so much that they are...
Here's why Friday the 13th scares us The 5 scariest mythological witches from around the world History & Culture The 5 scariest mythological witches from around the world Meet Emiliano Zapata: hero and martyr of the Mexican Revolution History & Culture Meet Emiliano Zapata: hero and martyr of ...
this tale follows Yudah, the promised fiancée, from her desert home to the streets of Paris in a year rocked by revolution. Although, if time frames are correct, her journey lasts little more than ten or twelve months at the most, it will test the courage and resolve of this young her...
It also began to attract residents of other nationalities, among which Russians were among the most prominent. The first émigrés arrived in the wake of Russia’s 1917 revolution and another wave followed the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931. ...
Growing in the shade of an observation platform across the road from the swallow-wort featured in myprevious post,it was very much a late bloomer; spring and summer are considered the height of its season. Nonetheless, the dusting of pollen on the flower’s interior suggests at least one po...
And unlike the industrial revolution where you simply needed to learn a new skill, this time there will be no new skills to learn and there will be no work to be had even if you did. Then what? One big question since this is increasingly accepted as a likely future by scientists, who...