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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES, seven joint debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas during the 1858 senatorial election campaign in Illinois. The debates marked the culmination of a political rivalry that had its origin twenty-five years before, when both were... Read more |
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Hampton Court conference
Hampton Court conference, 1604. Although Elizabeth I established a protestant church in England in 1559, it offended puritan opinion by retaining many catholic practices. In 1603 the accession of James I provided the puritans with an opportunity to state their case by presenting him with the... Read more |
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Internet pornography
C YBERPORN A Pitfall on the Information Superhighway The Internet brought quick, easy access to information into homes and offices worldwide in the 1990s. Bright entrepreneurs developed various e-commerce sites, and the web became a viable place of business for many,... Read more |
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Mortimer J. Adler
Mortimer Jerome Adler American philosopher-educator Mortimer J. Adler (1902-2001) raised a stir in public schools, colleges, and universities over the place of classic works in the curriculum. For more than sixty years, his writings exposed to public scrutiny radical ideas about how to enlighten... Read more |
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Presidency
PRESIDENCY The presidency is the most powerful formal political institution in post-communist Russia. Except for the ceremonial title given to the head of the USSR Supreme Soviet, the Soviet Union did not have a presidency until its waning years, although the adoption of one was discussed under... Read more |
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Kennewick Man
Kennewick Man The remains of an ancient human found along a river in Kennewick, Washington, in 1996 set off a heated debate about the ownership and future of the skeleton. Scientists argued that the skeleton, dubbed Kennewick Man, could provide new information about human migration in North America,... Read more |
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artificial insemination
artificial insemination technique involving the artificial injection of sperm-containing semen from a male into a female to cause pregnancy. Artificial insemination is often used in animals to multiply the possible offspring of a prized animal and for the breeding of endangered species. Prepared... Read more |
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revolutions of 1848
revolutions of 1848 in European history. The February Revolution in France gave impetus to a series of revolutionary explosions in Western and Central Europe. However the new French Republic did not support these movements. The stage was set when the unrest caused by the economic effects of... Read more |
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Carolingian architecture and art
Carolingian architecture and art art forms and structures created by the Carolingians . Toward the beginning of the Carolingian Period, in the 8th cent., a gradual change appeared in Western culture and art, a change that later reached its apex under Charlemagne . Carolingian Architecture The... Read more |
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The New Republic Reader: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate.(Brief Article)
THE NEW REPUBLIC READER: EIGHTY YEARS OF OPINION AND DEBATE. Edited by Dorothy Wickenden...Lewis Mumford who wrote that in the New Republic in 1940. Since Martin...Left, and between the wars the New Republic became a battlefield for... |
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The New Republic Reader: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate.
...Edmund Wilson asked readers of The New Republic in 1932. Writing...throughout The New Republic's history...radical limits two years later when he wrote...the magazine's eighty-year history, one is...intellectual left. Twenty years ago, Hans Morgenthau... |
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Jewish voices in The New Republic
...Exponent 12-02-1994 Jewish voices in The New Republic.THE NEW REPUBLIC READER: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate, edited by Dorothy Wickenden. Basic Books, 518 pages, $28.The New Republic is one of our nation's most... |
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HARDCOVERS IN BRIEF
...the medium." The New Republic Reader: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate , edited by Dorothy...take long for the New Republic to stir up trouble. Late in 1914, the year of the magazine...insurrections" in its readers' minds, Rebecca... |
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Letters
...faithful to his readers. For anyone who...Following nearly four years of horrific violence...that is receiving new scrutiny now that...incorrectly to back an opinion doesn't help...silence in the debate over disengagement...said: "This republic can exist forever...test of loyalty. ... |