It was just one of a series of stunning overthrows in the region, but also worldwide. Also, in 1979, the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, was ousted and replaced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during the so-called Islamic revolution. A group of Iranian students, who supported the ...
And a friend, who prided himself on being rather good at speaking French, went in to hire the canoes; we decided we needed three, so he asked for "trois canneurs" which he thought was the French for "three canoes". We got our canoes; we spent the afternoon on the river; we came ...
But when I was outside house and connected 1/4-wavelength long piece of copper wire into modem’s antenna socket, I was able to connect to the network. Due to impossibility to make connection from the house, first more or less working solution included wireless router with USB port (at t...
when, as a result of the Pakistan Revolution and the partition of India, the country became an independent nation in the form of the Dominion of Pakistan within the British Commonwealth. During the Cold War, Pakistan was closely related to the U.S. ...
Prior to that, though, I had flown from Cuba to Panama City, and there took a boat ride through the Panama Canal, which was mildly interesting. The “Canal Zone” started in 1850s with a train from the Caribbean Coast on the north to the Pacific coast on the south. The Canal is loc...
The novel is about when a rapidly-deteriorating international crisis became merely more intense than before due to the combination of scarce fossil fuel supplies, scarce water and food source in Africa, the widespread ebola virus, the Brexit issue, the presidency of Donald Trump, the economic coll...
In the months following the 2009 presidential election in Iran, protests erupted across the country. The Iranian government violently suppressed what came to be known as the Iranian Green Movement, even blocking mobile signals to cut off communication between the protesters. My parents, who emigrated...
My time in Evergreen and my LDS faith brought clarity to me. I was told I would be cured of homosexuality and I was told that my core self was a sinful choice. But all those years taught me that all I wanted was what they had: A full loving life and family with the right person...
The individual rights argument was made by many scholars centuries before the American Revolution and codified the proper words in Mr Jefferson’s document. Legions of manipulators have done all they can to nullify the idea of individual sovereignty ever since, causing the quagmire of Human Rights ...
Was the Reformation doctrine of justification a mistake? The New Perspective on Paul has serious implications for that pivotal doc- trine of the gospel. In this thoroughly documented overview, Guy Waters lays out the theological, his- torical, and cultural antecedents to the New Perspective and ...