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The 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's best seller book Silent Spring represented a major watershed moment in American conservation. [29] In exposing the individual dangers presented to both people and nature through the use of chemical pesticides, Carson inspired an environmental revolution, helping to root the modern conservation movement in ...
In 2017, fifty years after the courthouse raid, described as "a watershed moment in New Mexico history," the movement to regain the Tierra Amarilla land by the heirs of the original settlers had subsided, although, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican, emotions were still raw. [28]
The term began to appear untranslated and capitalized (Juche) in English scholarly texts in the 1960s. According to Myers, this result of lazy (non-)translation made juche "jump out" from text and seem like an original idea instead of the ordinary word it was. [54] The speech is often considered a "watershed moment" in North Korean history. [55]
One-third of the world’s wetlands have been lost in a short 50 years, along with a staggering 83% of freshwater wildlife populations | Opinion
It's a watershed moment for the nation's most populous city, where legally documented, voting-age noncitizens comprise nearly one in nine of the city’s 7 million voting-age inhabitants.
The end of the Spanish–American War was in many ways a new beginning for the US Navy and marked a watershed moment in American and Spanish history. The defeat of the Spanish Navy gave the US nearly uncontested control of the seas surrounding Cuba.
More than 800,000 noncitizens and “Dreamers” in New York City will have access to the ballot box — and could vote in municipal elections as early as next year — after Mayor Eric Adams ...
This is the last week of trading of the year, and stocks are off to a good start this morning, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the broader S&P 500 up 0.5% and 0.6%, respectively, at 10: ...