"Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate. Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced wi...
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"It was one of history's great vanishing acts. As early as 3500 BCE, scribes in the mud-walled city-state of Sumer used a reed stylus to press tiny wedge-shaped symbols into clay. For three thousand years, the script chronicled the military conquests, scientific discoveries, and ...
"Mary McAuliffe's multilayered exploration of Paris, weaves a narrative that takes the reader into secret and hidden places, even in the midst of the most well-known Paris destinations. McAuliffe's hidden places can be small but are always revealing, whether a bas-relief on an i...
"OTTAWA, October 29, 2011 ? Today the Royal Canadian Mounted Police presented a copy of its report, The Role of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police During the Indian Residential School System, to the Indian Residential School (IRS) Survivor Committee during the Truth and Reconcilia...