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...formed around Kiev's Rada and Cabinet buildings, though this time in pro-Yanukovych blue and white. These colors mix with the red banners of his communist and socialist coalition allies in Independence Square, while orange loyalists have set a defensive tent ring around the President's office. The Crimean autonomous region in the east passed a resolution supporting Yanukovych; the Lviv region in the west voted to support Yushchenko. Defense Minister Anatoly Gritsenko, one of the two Yushchenko loyalists still in the Cabinet, pledged the armed forces' obedience to the President; the Rada, on the other hand, controls...
...gallops along. "We told you so," hard-core practitioners of the dismal science might crow. "Economics beats politics any time." The mighty dynamics of expansion seem to bear them out. So does the history of the first globalization, from 1850-1914. There were lots of small wars then: the Crimean one, the wars of German unification, a spate of long-forgotten battles over the Balkans, skirmishes from one end of Africa to another and throughout Southeast Asia. Yet international trade and investment prevailed over protectionist sentiment...
...17th century French military engineer and cartographer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, whose works were used as “authoritative” depictions of Ukrainian borderlands for at least 150 years, Seegel wrote in an e-mail. Krawciw’s collection also boasts rare maps of Crimean War battle plans and propaganda maps. “One of Krawciw’s rules of thumb—which he seemed to have violated occasionally—was that he never wanted to spend more than $50 on a single map acquisition,” Seegel said. Now, though...
...keener to emphasize the personal integrity and courage of those who bring us bad news from dangerous places for a living. Golden understands that reportage with cameras was practiced steadily from the 1850s; he includes Roger Fenton and his panoramas of British soldiers on maneuvers during the Crimean War and one of Alexander Gardner's "staged" photographs - he was not above placing a rifle next to a corpse for dramatic effect - from Gettysburg. And Witness does not make fussy distinctions between "art" photography and "news" photography. Social documentarians Lewis Hine and Dorothea Lange mingle with Gilles Peress, James Nachtwey...
...that of Australia's 20 Victoria Crosses in the war, 12 were won in the Pacific. The Commonwealth's supreme decoration for bravery has been awarded only 1,355 times since its institution in 1856. All of the medals are struck from bronze cannon captured at Sebastopol in the Crimean War; one is still in the hands of Ted Kenna, the last survivor of that heroic dozen...