When monuments fall: the politics of toppling political sculpture Russia Beyond The HeadlinesCheremushkin, Peter
When did the Empire of Japan fall?The Empire of Japan:The Empire of Japan was a powerful state which was based in the Japanese islands yet quickly expanded to take control of other regions. At its peak, the empire controlled a significant number of territories across East Asia, Southeast ...
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but even that "orderly" narrative — complete with highly specific references to rulers from the Roman Empire and a worldwide census — fails to name a day, month
A decade ago, heavy winter rains washed over the Yamal Peninsula in Northwest Russia, killing 60,000 reindeer and ruining livelihoods.
Likewise, only 34 countries participated in the sanctions against Russia out of a total of 195. This tells the time of day clearly to the so-called “Western” bloc led by the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the NATO member countries in particular. The Russia-Afr...
It is with us really under every disguise: at Chautauqua; here in your college; in the stock-yards and on the freight-trains; and in the czar of Russia's court. But, instinctively, we make a combination of two things in judging the total significance of a human being. We feel it to...
Austria-Hungary and the German Empire adopted Daylight Saving Time on April 30, 1916 to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, its allies, and other neutral European nations soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year, and the U.S. adopted the concept in...
No one made more of the small screen than this dirt-poor son of Jewish immigrants whose sense of glitz, glam and story spanned 'Charlie's Angels,' 'The Love Boat' and 'Dynasty' (ABC was nicknamed "Aaron's Broadcasting Company") and is recalled
the Ottoman Empire on the verge of collapse in the first decades of the twen-tieth century, several historians in the service of the splintered nations that formed the Balkans took great interest in archiving the writings handed down by their forebears, the South Slavic subjects of the Sultan...