revolution
Independence Day: Let America be America again
June 30, 2016In a time when demagogues try to convince us that America needs to be "great again," Hughes reminds us of the dream of what America could be.
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Today in history: 200 years since the Battle of Waterloo
June 18, 2015Today marks the 200th anniversary of the defeat of Napoleon by the British Duke of Wellington and Prussian field marshal Gebhard Blücher.
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July 26, 1953: Cuban revolutionary struggle turns 70
July 24, 2014A small band of courageous and principled young Cubans stormed the Moncada Barracks, the beginning of a movement that has changed the world forever.
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Cuba – 55 years of ideas and truth
January 6, 2014On January 1, Cubans 2014 marked the 55th anniversary of their revolution's victory.
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1917 Russian Revolution: What the world has lost
November 8, 2013It has been 96 years since the Russian Revolution and 22 years since the Soviet Union, collapsed and broke into pieces, and the world lost much in that collapse.
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