Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
Saturday, April 07, 2018

From the Archives - 'Teaching Geography: A Valuable Enterprise' (1997)

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I first wrote about this topic in the late 1980s. This article appeared in the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot on April 7, 1997, under the headline...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

From the Archives: 'School Training for Civil Defense' (1981)

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Some background may shed light on this 1981 article, retrieved from my paper archives.  Fortunately the story behind it has already been tol...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

From the Archives: UVA English professor Paul Cantor explores zombies and liberty in pop culture

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Publisher's note: This article was originally published on Examiner.com on November 16, 2013. The Examiner.com publishing platform was ...
Sunday, May 08, 2016

Marilyn Monroe and the Real Value of Profits

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An obscure 1951 film that fell out of copyright gained some new life in the home video market simply because a then practically unknown Mar...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

My Brush with Greatness: Edward Teller (1908-2003)

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Today would have been the 106th birthday of nuclear physicist Edward Teller , who has often been called the "father of the hydrogen bom...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

From the Archives: 'Act Now to Save Lives After a Nuclear War'

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Thirty years ago tonight, ABC-TV broadcast The Day After , a movie about the aftermath of nuclear war set in the American heartland. Direct...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

From the Archives: A Look Back at 1989's 'The End of History?'

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There were, perhaps, only two scholarly articles published in limited-circulation journals of opinion in the twentieth century that stimulat...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

From the Archives: 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Recalls Chemical Weapons in Africa

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Yesterday in Oslo it was announced that the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize will go to a group that monitors and discourages the use of chemical weap...