… ago the arms business was in the hands of governments. Even though there's a group of private arms companies now, the arms business remains tied to today's international relations of the world. As countries make alliances with each other, as treaties…

… an assembly formed near the Lincoln Memorial, a memorial to the author of the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared all slaves in the Confederacy "free forever". Just as Lincoln did in his time, another man raised during the time of the early…

… in Clifton New Jersey. He grew up in a poverish area where crime was prominent. He was arrested as a child for stabbing a man who he claimed was trying to molest his friend. He would spend his youth in a juvenile detention center. Eventually Rubin…

… must be made on the appropriate form and filed at one of the Provincial Offices of Industry, Trade and Handicraft, located at Chambers of Commerce, or sent by registered post with advice of delivery to the Italian Patent and Trademark Office, in Rome.…

… local residents hold a pageant to select a high school girl to be the new "John Brown Queen." The unlikely namesake of this pageant was responsible for the murder of five unarmed men in 1856 along the nearby Pottawatomie Creek. His memory is intertwined…

… refugees in the world are protected by the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. This convention ensures the basic human rights of vulnerable persons and that refugees will not be returned involuntarily to a country where they face persecution. However, violations…

… was an attempt by white Southerners to separate the races in every sphere of life and to achieve supremacy over blacks. Segregation was often called the Jim Crow system, after a minstrel show character from the 1830s who was an old, crippled, black…

… market in the late 1950's, agriculture was important to their economies, and even more important to their cultures and societies. They therefore decided that they needed a Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Created in 1962 under Article 39 of the…

… of the European Communities, it is still considered as Europe's "awkward partner". Where does it come from? European communities were created because the founding fathers of the union believed that integrating European countries' economies would…

… rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955. That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This brave woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined for violating…