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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Nuclear arms, testing still imperil life on earth

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The August  Atlantic  published a few select photos of nuclear tests by military photographers in Nevada amid a series of stories on nuclea...
Sunday, August 24, 2025

Middle Passage project unveils R.I. sculpture: looking ahead in strength, not back in despair, artist says

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Memorial Sculpture The Bristol Middle Passage Port Marker Project (BMP) today unveiled and dedicated the Bristol Memorial Sculpture by Rhod...
Friday, August 1, 2025

Vietnam marks 50 years since fall of Saigon, but American corporations overshadow communism today

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At Hoàn Kiếm Lake, Hanoi Vietnam recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, and I visited Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Analog propaganda proves persuasive to some at 'Hanoi Hilton,' where exhibits selectively whitewash war

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Hỏa Lò Prison , Hanoi RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Media illiteracy is not just an affliction of the aged. In June, I visited Hỏa Lò Pris...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Amos, King: love one another; defend the oppressed; plead the cause of the innocent, the powerless

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David Erickson CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons On this Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, I was blessed with the opportunity to stand in the ...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

New book traces royal Achaean lineage in legal history

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Ugo Stornaiolo Silva has published a new book, Achaean Disputes: Eight Centuries of Succession Conflicts for the Title of Prince of Achaea ....
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Religious talk touches on Jewish law, legal writing

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Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 On Sunday, I had the privilege of delivering the message at my home church...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

New book examines 'rise of classical legal thought' through experience of South Asia, British Empire

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Professor Chaudhry UMass Law Professor Faisal Chaudhry has published a book on history and the development of classical legal thought. Sout...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

1901: Disgruntled laborer shoots, kills President

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Assassination of President McKinley by T. Dart Walker, c. 1905 Library of Congress In Buffalo , New York, this week, I felt obliged by recen...