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Parliament condemned Gen. Francisco Franco's nearly 40-year dictatorship Wednesday in historic legislation addressing a dark chapter of Spanish history that had been largely off-limits.
Spanish lawmakers passed historic legislation Wednesday condemning Gen. Francisco Franco's coup and nearly 40-year fascist dictatorship, brushing aside complaints from the conservative opposition that the bill would reopen old divides.
A glance at the causes and outcome of the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War:
Captured by Confederate sailors in a bloody midnight sneak attack in 1864, the gunboat Water Witch became one of the few Civil War ships to sail under the flags of both the Confederate and Union navies. Archaeologists say they found strong evidence Thursday they've located the Water Witch's wreckage buried under more than 10 feet of mud in the Vernon River south of Savannah.
Statues, street names and other symbols honoring former dictator Gen. Francisco Franco would be eliminated under a bill that seeks to make amends to victims of its civil war, the ruling Socialist Party said Thursday.
Spain took a bold first step toward addressing one of its darkest chapters — carving out an agreement that would honor victims on both sides of the Spanish civil war, and the ensuing rightwing dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco.
Democrat John Edwards urged a crowd at a Civil War battlefield to ignore polls and fundraising numbers that show him lagging in third place in the party's presidential race.
Honest Abe will become Colorful Abe with splashes of purple and gray livening up the $5 bill. The government showed off the new bill Thursday in an Internet news conference — a high-tech unveiling that officials say is entirely appropriate for a 21st century redesign of the bill featuring the Civil War president, Abraham Lincoln.
A 40-year-old intern with the National Archives pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing 164 Civil War documents, including an official announcement of President Lincoln's death, and putting most of them up for sale on eBay.
Amid the Confederate flags, anti-Yankee bumper stickers and Civil War relics on display at Bob Moates Sport Shop, a counterattack against the North is under way.
The U.S. military for the first time Wednesday said in a new report that some of the violence in Iraq can be described as a civil war.
Alicia Bowers, a Panamanian immigrant, can easily recall that George Washington was the first U.S. president. She knows the three branches of government are legislative, executive and judicial.
Almost a year ago, a book by William B. Styple lifted Civil War artist-historian James Edward Kelly from obscurity. Now, Styple is making sure Kelly is never forgotten.
Bill Cosby called Friday on each American to contribute $8 to help build a national slavery museum amid the battlefields of the Civil War. Cosby, who already has committed $1 million to the project, joined Richmond Mayor L. Douglas Wilder on Friday in launching a new campaign to raise $100 million toward the Fredericksburg museum's $200 million price tag.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is drawing a parallel between the Iraq war and the Civil War. Both had their critics but both were justified, she says.
About 30 Ku Klux Klan members proclaimed hatred for blacks, Jews, gays and Latinos as they stood behind barricades at the Civil War battlefield where Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
Deep within the Pentagon, they're trying to piece together a picture of an Iraqi civil war. What would it look like? Donald Rumsfeld asks.
We forget in the trivia of modern-day politics that the existence of this nation at various points in its history was, as the British are prone to say, a "very near thing." Lincoln remembered this at Gettysburg, in honoring those who sacrificed so that this nation would not peris …
In the middle of a made-up country in its eighth decade, a terror war broke out. The nation almost bled out and died.
This story is from a Conservative USA Christian who is alienated from the USA political scene.
Even in the midst of the Civil War, there was still one thing the North and South shared -- a serious addiction to caffeine.
Unprecedented levels of political violence between Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip during the past year, which culminated in June 2007 when Hamas seized control of Palestinian Authority (PA) security institutions in the territory, took a heavy toll on the civilian populati …
There are so many ways to die in Mogadishu. You can walk, as an old lady here recently did, into the path of a roadside bomb planted by Islamic rebels. The insurgents haven't perfected their timers. They missed the passing government patrol. The grandmother was decapitated.
Today marks five years since the authorization of military force in Iraq, setting Operation Iraqi Freedom in motion. Five years on, the Iraq war is as undermanned and under-resourced as it was from the start. And, five years on, Iraq is in shambles.
A total of 351 cases of rape were reported in North Kivu province, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), representing a 60 percent increase from August, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on 11 October.
Liberia, slowly rebuilding from 14 years of war, has a poor, largely unemployed population and a devastated infrastructure. And it is confronting the question in this post-conflict setting of how to sustain the health sector - user fees or some other mechanism.
FRONTIER MINE, DRC (Reuters) - Like many Congolese, Godel Mulamba made a living on the illegal trade in copper ore until the government banned the export of raw copper in March of this year.
Nelson Winbush is intent on defending the flag of his grandfather. It's just surprising which flag that is.
You have just got to love race deflectors (people who try to put off the issue of racism via numerous means - are what I call race deflectors).
His grandfather's casket was draped with a Confederate flag. His mother pounded out her Confederate heritage on a typewriter. He wears a rebel flag pinned to the collar of his polo shirt. Winbush is also black. "You've never seen nothing like me, have you?"
Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, cannot bear to listen to the stories his patients tell him anymore.
With the Islamist group Hezbollah having brought Lebanese politics to a standstill, the country's once-dominant Christian community feels under siege and has begun re-establishing militias, training in the hills and stockpiling weapons.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 5 — With the Islamist group Hezbollah having brought Lebanese politics to a standstill, the country's once-dominant Christian community feels under siege and has begun re-establishing militias, training in the hills and stockpiling weapons.
Science Daily — Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center, have built a low-cost robotic device that enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel (billions of pixels) panoramas, called GigaPans.
Quoted from history lesson: "The date is February 21, 1871 and the Forty-First Congress is in session. I refer you to the "Acts of the Forty-First Congress," Section 34, Session III, chapters 61 and 62.
A comprehensive and in-depth investigative report by Pratap Chatterjee for CorpWatch who does an excellent job documenting the private military contractor and USG role in creating, training and enabling the myriad of so-called Iraqi "Emergency Response Units," which are actually …
Halo 3 begins with the space Marine protagonist Master Chief rocketing toward Earth, which has been devastated by an alien invasion.
Now that the NY Times has opened its archives the contents of the paper's entire history are before the public eye including stories like this one - filed while President Abraham Lincoln lay dieing.
"A Proclamation by the President of the United States --------- The War Still to be Prosecuted for the Restoration of the Union ----------- A Decree of Emancipation ------------- All Slaves in States in Rebellion on the First of January Next to be Free ----- The Gradual …
Code of Honor
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