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The Gambia Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note The Gambia Index: People and History Government Defense Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations U.S.-Gambian Relations PEOPLE AND HISTORYA wide…

Who Was Who in the Khmer Rouge, Part 1

Beyond Pol Pot and Ta Mok This article was posted in March, 1999. In the two decades since the regime was toppled, not a single Khmer Rouge has been tried in a court of law…

Declaration of the Rights of Man

Approved by the National Assembly of France, August 26, 1789The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of…

James Winthrop: Agrippa XV

Agrippa XVJames Winthrop22 January 1788by James WinthropTo the Massachusetts Convention.Gentlemen, Truly deplorable, in point of argument, must be that cause, in whose defence persons of…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 21, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 20, 1806June 22, 1806June 21, 1806 Saturday June 21st 1806. We collected our horses early set out on our return to the flatts. we all felt…

Brewer's: Balance

(The) “Libra,” the 7th sign of the zodiac, which contains the autumnal equinox. According to fable it is Astræa, who, in the iron age, returned from earth to heaven. Virgil, to praise the…