Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about to disagree. In London, the mass-circulation dailies exploded in a chorus of adulation. FANTASTIC! exclaimed the Daily Mail, wow! trumpeted Rupert Murdoch's Sun. Most Britons, rather than showing concern over the shuttle's military potential, seemed to welcome it. Said the London Times: "The conquest of space is both a necessary expression of man's drive to explore and understand his environment and a military requirement if the West is not to be dominated by Soviet activity in space...
...revision of tutorial topics, which was solely in faculty hands save for informal consultation with tutors by the faculty involved, only three of the old topics survived. In their place the following selections are in the process of preparation: Pre-1700 Europe: The Gracchi, the Norman Conquest, and The Peasants' Revolt of 1525: Modern Europe: The French Revolution, Sigmund Freud. The Iran Crisis: America: American Slavery. The Origins of the Cold War, and The American West; Historiography: Positivism and Anti-positivism. Historians and Their Craft...
...letters, which he never intended for publication, reveal just how rich that life was. They also indicate why his convictions about hunting, fishing, drinking, warring, fornicating, storymaking and dying were certain to become public property. Hemingway's code of conquest and survival was on the continent before the white man. His best stories focused a nostalgia for the New World's uncorrupted bounty. The letters, too, are full of firm trout tricked from pure streams, plump birds hosed out of clear skies, fleet beasts felled by one clean shot and blank slopes marked by the signature...
...changes revolutions--it changed the American, the Russian, the Chinese, the Cuban, and the Mexican Revolutions. And it is very difficult for us to accept the accidents of history--the demands of pragmatism. What the Mexican Revolution did was break the basic, unchangeable social structure imposed by the Spanish Conquest. It may have created a new bourgeois society, but the semi-feudal system during the times of Porfirio Diaz were changed...
...expense of helping an overthrow by a [faction] that is totalitarian. Take South Korea as an example. The South Korean government is doing things that we do not support. We wish they could be different. Do we take an action that opens South Korea up to possible conquest by North Korea where, again, there are no human rights...