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Timeline: AIDS Epidemic, 1981 - 1995

Key events, important people, activism and breakthroughs 1981-1983 1985-1988 1991-1995 1996-Present 1981 "Gay cancer," later called GRID, (Gay Related Immuno Deficiency)…

A Millennium Miscellany

by Borgna Brunner The Just-in-Time-for-the-Millennium Department In Dec. 1999, Pope John Paul II publicly apologized for the Catholic Church's execution of Czech reform leader Jan Hus, who was…

Israeli Druze

With the outbreak of civil war in Syria, more Druze turn to Israel for citizenship. By Jennie Wood Related Links Conflict from 1948 through 2000 Recent…

July 1998 News and Events

1998 News Month-By-MonthWorldClinton Ends Nine-Day Trip to China (July 1): In Shanghai, President speaks to nation in broadcast interview. He praises economic liberalization; says U.S. does…

Sexual Abuse on Campus

A national debate on how to handle the problem of campus sexual abuse continued throughout 2014 Part of a 2014 Public Service Announcement Related Links Sexual Assault: The…

Brewer's: Iron Mask

The man in the iron mask (called Lestang) was Count Ercolo Antonio Matthioli, a senator of Mantua, and private agent of Ferdinand Charles, Duke of Mantua. He suffered imprisonment of…