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On the first day of Sun 'n Fun, Florida-based Piper Aircraft announced the sale of 10 aircraft to Hillsboro Aero Academy.

Are we unable to imagine defeat? You might have thought that, having so recently lost a small war, Americans would have no difficulty picturing the consequences of losing a large one. But the humiliating abandonment of Afghanistan in 2021 has been consigned with remarkable swiftness to the collective memory hole. Presumably a similar process would occur if at some future date

Dismissed by some as mere speculation, examining ‘what ifs’ can shed valuable light on neglected perspectives

From the November/December 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.

Old houses in Kawit, Malolos, San Isidro, and Angeles on the trail of Emilio Aguinaldo and his revolucionarios

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How to Observe Memorial Day During the Pandemic How to Observe Memorial Day During the Pandemic 6 ways to honor the fallen this year Share this story Published 1 hour ago Above image credit: An aerial view of the National World War I Museum and Memorial, which has a full slate of Memorial Day weekend events scheduled this year. (File photo) On Memorial Day in 2019, visitors browsed the solemn exhibits of the Pearl Harbor National Memorial ...

You can’t predict disasters, the historian Niall Ferguson rightly says. They’re too diverse to prepare for, and “we rarely get the disasters we expect”. When a disaster does occur, governments initially tend to underestimate its severity, a consequence often of their lack of imagination and their failure to learn from history. They look to the last crisis for examples of how

by Paul Haeder / January 10th, 2021 The number of gun sales in Oregon by Christmas Day, 2020, was a whopping 4,000,000. The year before, an anemic 300,000. It is the law of the gun. Guns in jets, guns in bombers, guns in schools, guns here on the streets, in Salem, at the Capital, guns in Grand Theft Auto V, guns in purses, guns in boudoirs, guns in locker-rooms, guns in nurseries, guns in  churches, guns in cars, guns in drones, guns guns guns. Dalton Trumbo, quote from Johnny Got His Gun :...

Arts & Science Follow U of T News Sarah Qidwai, a U of T graduate student, builds online community to promote diversity and accessibility U of T PhD candidate Sarah Qidwai created the Virtual History of Science, Technology and Medicine group (Virtual HistSTM), a digital community focused on diversity and accessibility for academic discussions, conferences and events (photo by Meng Lim) When the global pandemic cut short her research trip to the United Kingdom in March,  Sarah Qidwai t...