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"Help a nation in distress." And we gave our glorious laddies— Honour made us do no less, [or Honour bade us do no less] For no gallant son of Freedom [or For no gallant Son of Britain] To a tyrant's yoke should bend, [or To a foreign yoke shall bend] And a noble heart must answer [or And no Englishman is silent] To the sacred call of "Friend ...
The upside-down US flag is a sign of a nation in distress and the “appeal to heaven” flag has in recent years become a symbol for support of Christian nationalism and the baseless claim that ...
Coinciding with other 1960s and 1970s indigenous activist movements, the Hawaiian sovereignty movement was spearheaded by Native Hawaiian activist organizations and individuals who were critical of issues affecting modern Hawaii, including the islands' urbanization and commercial development, corruption in the Hawaiian Homelands program, and appropriation of native burial grounds and other ...
The Nation was established on July 6, 1865, at 130 Nassau Street ("Newspaper Row") in Manhattan.Its founding coincided with the closure of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, [6] also in 1865, after slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; a group of abolitionists, led by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, desired to found a new ...
Each year for the past 78 years, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has published a new Doomsday Clock, suggesting just how close – or far – humanity is to destroying itself.
This is a list of countries by external debt: it is the total public and private debt owed to nonresidents repayable in internationally accepted currencies, goods or services, where the public debt is the money or credit owed by any level of government, from central to local, and the private debt the money or credit owed by private households or private corporations based on the country under ...
Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Sunday aimed at prioritizing government resources to help economically distressed American communities - a day before he leaves ...
The U.S. National Distress System was established in the early 1970s [1] as a VHF-FM-based radio communication system that has a range of up to 20 nautical miles (40 km) along most of the U.S. shoreline for the United States Coast Guard.