What is the French Republican Calendar? Metric System In an effort to change society and create a new social order in France after the monarchy fell in 1793, the new republican government changed many aspects of society, some of which remain with society today. The metric system was being dis...
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The Soviet state became a powerful one-party institution rather than withering away. It prohibited dissent and occupied the "commanding heights" of the economy. Agriculture, the banking system, and industrial production were subject to quotas and price controls laid out in a series of Five Year ...
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. —Pericles 168 A guy named Adolf Hitler won an election in 1932 ... and 50 million people died as a result ... what I learned as a little kid is that politics is, in f...
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself...
The article offers the author's insights on the political stance of U.S. Republican Party (GOP) which he relates to Las Vegas' slogan "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" in reverse. The author notes that the influence of the Tea Party over the Congress' decision on the debt ceiling...
“OMG,” the Mets’s 2024 slogan, not only means “oh my God” but is also the name of a popular song by Cuban-born singer Candelita — José Iglesias, a Mets infielder. His performance of the song after a late June win at Citi Field is often cited as a turning point in his tea...
[The sports] aesthetic reminds me of the branding ofEddie Mauro, a Democratic candidate from Iowa who ran for U.S. Senate this election cycle to no avail; his logo is tamer than Perry’s, but his website looked more like an advert for a new show on ESPN with the phrase “In th...
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On Day Two of the Democratic National Convention, Michelle and Barack Obama sent an already charged-up crowd into pure euphoria. The former president and his wife, still two of the most popular figures in the Democratic Party, have long been known as powerful orators. But their spee...