Tag: English
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Justice Scalia on the Historical Reasons for an Armed Militia
On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court affirmed by a vote of 5 to 4 the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Heller v. District of Columbia. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second…
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Map of Colonial Powers in Africa
Map on the left was produced in 1889 by George Cawston titled “Africa South of the Equator” showing the existence of boundary treaties. For the first time in African maps, you begin to see straight lines; however they are not drawn by Africans nor for Africans. The map is also colored coded: Orange = Belgium…