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The star said she was having a great time at her daughter's preschool graduation. Then she amended that on her Instagram story and said, "OK, I was lying before, please send help."

Those whose homes were damaged beyond 75% in the rains will benefit under the scheme; in addition, each such family will get cash of ₹95,000, says CM

Roxy Lee Jackson has been jailed for starting a fire in the flat she rented then walking away without alerting neighbours.

The Jana Chaitanya Vedika has demanded the implementation of prohibition in both the Telugu States, in phases. At a round table at Visakhapatnam Publi

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The drag-queen-turned-Broadway star talks about her role in "Head Over Heels" and the importance of transgender visibility.

Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore is looking for a Gameplay Engineer to code, debug, and manage gameplay systems and more. ...

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Credit Suisse shares its favorite stock picks with its clients.

MADRID (Sputnik) - As many as 377 people were injured after a section of wooden platform collapsed at a music festival in the city of Vigo in Spain's northwest autonomous community of Galicia, the local government said on Monday.

A look at two academic studies about the effect of U.S. consumers' political affiliation or conservative-liberal leanings on their purchase behavior with implications for luxury brand marketing and positioning.

Shrinking Protected Areas Can Hurt Genetic Diversity

Populations with a variety of genes can help a species adapt to threats like diseases and climate change.

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Valley in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, USA.

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Monday, August 13, 2018 - 15:45

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THE BRUTAL crackdown in Burma described as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” is feared to have killed thousands of refugees. Here is how these reported mass killings draw comparisons with other atrocities – and how genocide is defined. What is genocide? Genocide is the worst crime against humanity. It involves the mass extermination of […]

Nearly a third of all fourth-graders failed to reach a 'basic' level of reading ability, according to a 2017 report.

“Pacific Chivalry: Encouragement to Chinese Immigration,” Harper’s Weekly (1869).

For 35 years, the Capitol Steps comedy troupe has been making fun of America’s public officials, bringing howls of laughter from coast to coast, and now they are at it again. They are having a field day, too, because we have a President whom the late-night comics enjoy using for target practice. The cast members of Capitol Steps have sliced and diced everyone in recent history from Richard Nixon to Bernie Sanders and they are blasting away once more.

George Kennan, the famous American diplomat and historian, described World War I as “the seminal catastrophe” of the twentieth century. This judgement is reflected in the outpouring of books on its causes and horrors by famous historians including Barbara Tuchman, Martin Gilbert, Niall Ferguson and Norman Stone

Tara Zahra is a professor of history at the University of Chicago whose research focuses on the transnational history of modern Europe, migration, the family, nationalism, and humanitarianism. She is currently working on two book projects: a history of deglobalization in interwar Europe and a history of the First World War in the Habsburg Empire, co-authored with Pieter Judson. Zahra is the author of The Great Departure: Mass Migration and the Making of the Free World (Norton, 2016) and Objects of War... Читать дальше...

Related Link What Historians Are Saying About the New Vietnam War Documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

In a critique I wrote last fall of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War, I took the filmmakers to task for failing to expose the essential and damning truth of Vietnam: that the U.S. instigated a war of aggression that resulted in the deaths of three million Vietnamese, including more than 2 million civilians.

For generations, race studies scholars—historians, literary critics, social scientists—believed that race and its pernicious spawn racism were modern-day phenomena only. This is because race was originally defined only in biological terms, and believed to be determined by skin color, physiognomy, and genetic inheritance. The more astute, however, came to realize race could also be a matter of cultural classification, as Ann Stoler’s 1977 study of the colonial Dutch East Indies makes plain: “Race could never be a matter of physiology alone. Читать дальше...

It’s been almost a year since President Donald Trump proclaimed that there were “very fine people” on both sides of the August 15, 2017, white supremacy march in Charlottesville, Virginia.  Among those “very fine people” were torch-carrying neo-Nazis involved in a melee with those seeking removal of Confederate monuments. 

In 1883, Walt Whitman, America’s “Good Gray Poet,” was asked by the organizers of Santa Fe, New Mexico’s 333th anniversary celebration to read a poem in commemoration of the occasion. Whitman was the exemplary poet of the nation in its multitudinous diversity, and the perfect speaker to mark the establishment of the Spanish colony. Unfortunately, the invitation reached Whitman’s Camden, New Jersey home too late for the poet to schedule a reading for the event, but moved by the offer, he wrote a letter of thanks “To Messrs. Читать дальше...