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...many students of American history realize that at the same time the colonists were settling the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Mexican people were already in the present-day Southwest? How many Harvard students know exactly how Puerto Rico became a commonwealth of the U.S.? How many students can actually cite when Puerto Ricans began immigrating to the mainland U.S. in large numbers...
LaFontant agrees that the holiday can foster co-operation among the groups that make up present-day America...
...offering a scrupulously detailed or unbiased account of the events last year that transformed the modern world. There are no revelations here about what went on behind closed Kremlin doors. These are the passionate jottings of a man who is willing to acknowledge his mistakes but remains unreconciled to present-day realities. Gorbachev continues to believe the old Soviet republics would be better off in a new union; history, it appears, cheated him of this goal...
Many of the routes converged on an area marked Omanum Emporium (the Omani Marketplace) on a map drawn by Ptolemy in the 2nd century A.D. The spot is in present-day Oman at the edge of the Empty Quarter, an appropriate designation for a trackless region infested with camel spiders, giant ticks and lethal carpet vipers. The team checked out the forbidding terrain in 1990 and began hunting in earnest last November. Just six weeks ago, says Clapp, "we were ^ within a whisker of total failure." Then the party decided to examine Ash Shisar, a water hole with ruins...
...book. "We put it together once," roared Shuttlesworth to stamping applause, "and we can put it together again." Blacks are outraged that the man they elected, with the ballot they fought so hard to win, is under attack. To many people, the case against Arrington is a present-day version of trumped-up charges brought against King...