Word: aryanized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Tell me about the time you spent with white separatists in Idaho. I just stumbled upon it. There's a religious sect called Christian Identity, which is a religious arm of the Aryan Nations. When I was in northern Idaho, I sat in on a three-day retreat and had some fascinating conversations. It was just a bizarre experience...
...part of his twisted vision of the future, Adolf Hitler planned to construct the world's finest museum - the eponymous Führermuseum - in his hometown of Linz, Austria. By stocking it with the world's greatest works of art, he hoped to showcase the superiority of Aryan artists over their supposedly "degenerate" Jewish counterparts. Within months of invading Poland in 1939, Nazi troops began seizing selected pieces - including paintings by Raphael, Rembrandt and Vermeer - from churches, museums and private art collections. The artworks were then hidden in mines and remote castles for safekeeping until the war ended...
...Percy Williams, a Canadian, became the first non-American to take the title. Six years later, Owens took the record back with a 10.2-second time - part of the epic performance in Berlin in which the sprinter notched four gold medals and punctured Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy beneath the Fuhrer's scornful gaze...
...relationship between the nature of the colonial regime and the wars that followed. Three panels explored cultural differences and colonial objectives that led to violent uprisings and eventual resolutions. Each speaker presented a specific conflict ranging from the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya to the adoption of Aryan nationalism in Sri Lanka. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole summed up the general consensus of the conference, saying, “colonialism was not a cause of conflict, but a result of it.” Panelist presented their viewpoints from their own publications or from life-experiences...
...boycott, athletes suffer, and the only thing that changes is that the credibility of the Olympics as a festival of goodwill suffers another dent. Jesse Owens had the right idea. In 1936 he led the U.S. team at Hitler's Berlin Olympics--a black man in the land of Aryan supremacy. His four gold medals proved that quiet excellence can be a most eloquent statement...