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Title: Appeasement at Munich (The Inevitable Result of the Slowness of Conversion of the British Democracy from a Disarmament to a Rearmament Policy...
...Nigeria formally severed with the British Empire following 160 years of colonial rule, and soon thereafter appointed Nnamdi Azikiwe its head of state. As fanfare and festivities erupted that week in the city of Lagos, roughly 30 Nigerian students attending universities in the Boston area celebrated remotely, alongside then-Harvard undergraduate Chukwuma B. Azikiwe ’63, son of the man who would soon take the helm of the most populous nation in Africa...
Worst part about Harvard: Despite being some of the smartest people around, many people think that just because I’m from New Zealand, I will somehow know their friend in Australia. And that I have a British accent. Which they then...
...American eight ultimately beat the British crew, finishing second to China with a time of 05:59.47. Lapage and his eight crossed the 2000m mark to capture fifth place with a time of 06:01.30, less than two seconds after the U.S.A...
...Iran or Iraq but the U.S. Irish-American organizations channeled millions of dollars into the Irish Republican Army, extremists responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents—both Catholic and Protestant—as well as soldiers and police, in the north, south, and the British mainland. Lured by hand-me-down sentiment, Irish Americans unwittingly paid for every soldier killed, every “traitor” disappeared, every British city center bombed, and every brutal sectarian arms race. For too many victims’ families on our islands, the road to hell has been...