Tag: Politics and History

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Emmeline Pankhurst
Emily Blunt Reads Emmeline Pankhurst’s Famous Speech From 1913

  By Phoebe Goldenberg • July 2, 2014 Uncategorized
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Listen to actress Emily Blunt read Emmeline Pankhurst’s famous “Kill Me Or Give Me My Freedom” speech at the People Event in London in September of 2012. Pankhurst, the leader of the women’s suffrage movement in Britain, originally delivered the speech in 1913 in an attempt to mobilize women in the … Continue reading

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New York City Blackout of 1977
Changes Brought on By the Blackout

  By Sarah Dejak • July 2, 2014 Uncategorized
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New York City residents, including various D.J.’s and well-known journalist Geraldo Rivera, comment on the July 13, 1977 city-wide blackout that they experienced. Wilton Sekzer, a member of the New York Police Department during the chaos, describes how difficult it was for officers to get the citizens under control as … Continue reading

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Armenian Genocide
Survivor on Losing Her Father

  By Sarah Dejak • July 2, 2014 Uncategorized
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Rahan Kachian, an Armenian immigrant that came to the United States during the Armenian Genocide that began in 1915 and occurred in present-day Turkey, remembers the events of that time in her life. She recalls rebuilding her family and community in America and the terrifying events of what happened to … Continue reading

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Armenian Genocide
The ‘Death Warrant’

  By Sarah Dejak • July 2, 2014 Uncategorized
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BBC reporter travels to Turkey, formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, to get facts and opinions from Turkish natives and experts that reflect how they feel about the Armenian Genocide that occurred in 1915. Doctor Yusuf Halacoglu, the president of the Turkish Historical Society, believes that the event cannot be … Continue reading

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Eritrean War of Independence
Facing Guerillas, Soldiers & Death During the Eritrean War

  By Victor Englebert • July 2, 2014 Uncategorized

Author: Victor Englebert “‘Say your payers for you’re going to die,’ and with that he dropped the stick, pulled a revolver from his belt, and came around the jeep to put it to my head…” In 1967, Ras (Prince) Mengesha, son-in-law of Ethiopia’s emperor Haile Selassie, wrote to National Geographic that … Continue reading

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Armenian Genocide
The Horrors That Women Experienced during the Armenian Genocide

  By Heath Harckham • July 1, 2014 Uncategorized
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Maria, 104 years old at the time of this interview, describes the inhumane treatment that Armenians like herself were subject to during the oft-forgotten genocide against Armenians in Turkey in the early 20th century. The Turkish government still officially denies the existence of the genocide.

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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria

  By Paul Hardart • June 28, 2014 Uncategorized
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See amazing footage of the funeral of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie. The couple was assassinated on June 28, 1914, which triggered the start of World War I. Earlier in the day, the couple had been attacked by Nedekjiko Cabrinovic, who had thrown a grenade at their … Continue reading

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Stonewall Riots
Witnify’s Interview With Gil Horowitz

  By Virginia Choi • June 28, 2014 Uncategorized
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Psychologist Gil Horowitz witnessed the beginning of the Stonewall Riots, a series of demonstrations by the gay community against a police raid that occurred on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City. “I didn’t intend to be involved…I saw up Christopher Street, watching police … Continue reading