But if not being assassinated by Sirhan. B.Sirhan. Robert F.Kennedy had not only been nominated as the Democratic candidate for POTUS(President of the United States_) but elected to the Presidency in November 1968 instead of Hubert Humphrey or Richard Nixon)?
Incidentally whilst we're on the...
Some years ago, in a school book, I read that during the so-called Prague Spring of 1968, the city's residents covered or destroyed all signs with references to streets and locations, leaving only those indicating how to get to Moscow. Or rather, how to get back to Moscow.
I've been looking for...
Or at least I have seen some discussions of that years "rebellious" movements. Then I wonder about earlier years of uproar and real or imagined revolution. Like 1848, when rebellions happened from southern to Northern Europe. How much in common can we see for those two years, 120 years apart...
Enoch Powell, Tory MP for Wolverhampton, shocked the very foundations of British Society with his infamous 'Rivers of Blood' Speech against Commonwealth Immigration.
So Infamous, in fact, that the famous Beatles made three satirical song about Enoch Powell ('Enoch Powell', 'Commonwealth' and...
Our next edition of YOU TUBE WATCH is "Hell in the Pacific". This is a John Boorman film that features tow great actors - Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. In fact, they are the only two actors in the movie. The movie is set on an island in the Pacific during WWII. The two characters are...
I wonder what czechs and slovaks think about 1968 "Prague Spring" and also about Ceausescu and Romania stance which was against the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
What is the perception of Romania in Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Was "Socialism with a Human Face" in the Prague Spring (1968) an impossible project?
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If the Olympics in Mexico City had taken place in 1972 and not 1968:
1) Would there have been student protests in 1968 like there were in real life that year, and would these protests have been as violent?
2) Would Palestinian terrorists have captured and possibly killed Israeli athletes...
Both were revolts by masses of people against the established order of the time. Both transcended borders, though the former was confined to Europe while the latter was global. Neither forced any sort of political change in the moment, but both can be argued to have had massive ripple effects...
So while strolling through wiki i stumbled upon the entire incident with Dan Rather at the Democratic Convention in Chicago and am wondering if anyone knows who the Georgia delegate is or why he was being escorted out?
Authentic video from 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion to Czechoslovakia after so called Prague Spring. Commentary only in French.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ciYceY3Wsuk#!
Cultural Marxism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms.
An Accuracy in Academia Address by Bill Lind
http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/
Variations of this speech have been delivered to various AIA...