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[…] E. Walton spent fifty years in the classroom including five summers in Japan and one in South Korea. He also traveled to Egypt, Mexico, Netherlands, Cuba, France and Jamaica. James Walton married Doris Harrington in 1974. The couple had two children, Leonard Longmire and […] … Read MoreJames E. Walton (1944-2019)
[…] and the 2010-2012 Arab Spring campaigns where North African and Middle Eastern women and young cyber activists toppled longstanding dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Many of these young overseas activists called their efforts the “Black Spring” movement. Between August 2014 and August […] … Read MoreBlack Lives Matter: The Growth of a New Social Justice Movement
[…] he robbed a Post Office to get funds for the organization and was arrested and imprisoned for two years before escaping to Egypt. In 1954 emigre leaders of the Algerian liberation movement met and formed the National Liberation Front (FLN) and agreed to mount […] … Read MoreAhmed Ben Bella (1916-2012)
[…] Chicago, Nov. 4, 2008 (2009) President Barack Obama, Inaugural Address A New Beginning Between the United States and the Muslim World, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009 (2013) President Barack Obama, Inaugural Address President Barack Obama, “Eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney,” 2015 President Barack Obama […] … Read MoreThe Barack Obama Page
[…] Davis III Ernest George Talbert Garry C. Dean Other Uniformed Services: Evelyn J. Fields, NOAA Other Nations: China: Edward A. Carter, Jr. Egypt: Taharqa France: Thomas Alexandre Dumas Alfred-Amédée Dodds Haiti: Toussaint L’Overture Jean Jacques Dessalines Henri Christophe Italy: Andrea Aguyar Michele Amatore Liberia: […] … Read MoreThe Commanders: Admirals and Generals in the United States Military, 1940–
[…] The peace treaty, which was signed at a Muslim Mosque in Watts, was modeled after the 1949 Armistice Agreement between Israel and Egypt to end official hostilities in the 1948 Arab-Israel War. One day later, the Rodney King Riots erupted in Los Angeles and […] … Read MoreThe Watts Truce (1992)