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There a handful of people from the 20th century who could be said to have exemplified excellence that transcended their chosen discipline and Muhammad Ali is arguably one of them.…
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The events which inform the current struggles in the Middle East are myriad, though one could easily argue the Crusades have as much influence as any other in the long…
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On June 3, 2008, US Presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, went on to win the Democratic primaries. The win was a significant step in Senator Obama’s transition to…
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Though the Berlin Wall had come down seven months before, the official work of joining the East Germans to their brothers and sisters in the West had not been accomplished…
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On June 4, 1989, Chinese military troops massacred thousands of unarmed civilians who blocked the route to Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The Tiananmen Square had been occupied by student protesters…
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The Six-Day War of 1967 was a major turning point in early years of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Apart from thrusting the Palestine Liberation Organization into prominence, the war also served…
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On June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in a heavily-guarded France to fight Nazi Germany during World War II. To embark on one of the…
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On June 7, 1893, Mohandas Gandhi, one of the most influential non-violent leaders of the modern world, committed his first act of civil disobedience in South Africa when he voiced…
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According to Muslims, Islam as a religion is the culmination of spiritual revelations that were brought into the world by the efforts of a number of prophets as foretold in…
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The world lost a literary stalwart and a social critic on June 9, 1870, when Charles Dickens passed away after suffering a stroke at his Kent residence. Newspapers considered the…
