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Women, Children, and Srebrenica Genocide

Posted by srebrenicagenocideinfo from Srebrenica-genocide.blogspot

In order to deny and justify Srebrenica genocide, many apologists question how could Serbs commit genocide by deciding to deport women and children from the U.N. 'protected' Srebrenica enclave? As the International Criminal Tribunal judges ruled, " The decision not to kill the women or children may be explained by the Bosnian Serbs' sensitivity to public opinion. In contrast to the killing of the captured military men, such an action could not easily be kept secret, or disguised as a military operation, and so carried an increased risk of attracting international censure."

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Walter Nugent | The American Habit of Empire, and the Cases of Polk and Bush | The Western Historica

Posted by Damianmann

Americans' historic experience with western expansion habituated them to empire-building, underpinned by the axiom of exceptionalism and the goal of extending liberty. This essay compares two examples of empire-building involving war: Polk in Mexico and George W. Bush in Iraq.

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Parachuting Dog Helped Win WWII | LiveScience

Posted by ecproject from Live Science

The Allied airmen and women of World War II were certainly brave and skilled in battle, but even they couldn't win the war on their own.

Plagued in the early, low-tech years of the war by dangerous afflictions such as altitude and decompression sickness, pilots got some help behind the front lines from a team of American physiologists who studied the effects on the body of flying.

Their research, which involved at least one parachuting dog, and the technology it initiated was a key to the Allied victory in the air, says Jay B. Dean of the University of South Florida College of Medicine.

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House of Augustus opens to public

Posted by Newshogg from BBC News

They say Rome wasn't built in a day - well the house of Augustus took 50 years to restore, at least in part.

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Back Home on the Christmas Eve Highway

Posted by Villagenyc

A Christmas Eve trip down the old Memphis highway reveals some ghosts, some atmosphere and some truths.

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Romney's Founders by Geoffrey R. Stone, professor of law at the University of Chicago

Posted by Marje

The founding fathers understood that religion was fundamentally a private and personal matter that had no place in the political life of a nation dedicated to the separation of church and state.

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Map that named America is a puzzle for researchers

Posted by Damianmann from Yahoo News!

The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at the Library of Congress, but even as it prepares for its debut, the 1507 Waldseemuller map remains a puzzle for researchers.

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