Energy means power and not just the one generated by it for electricity and because of bad policies in the US we are witnessing the largest transfer of power in the history of the modern world.

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This was a politically catastrophic event of genocidal proportions in the modern history of the Muslim world.

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Monday marks the 83rd anniversary of the onset of the worst economic collapse in the history of the modern world: the Great Depression.

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It needed an unusual type of mind to see that Nazism was something new in the world, a radically modern movement with a potential for destruction that had no precedent in history.

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Even the most inept Israeli politicians know that, unless Iran can be kept from developing a bomb, modern Israel will only be a brief and tragic chapter in world history.

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Both of these books are works of history, and neither draws explicit parallels with court politics in the modern world.

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All it takes is picking up a history book to see the huge difference that vaccination has made in the modern world.

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But now an exhibition at London's Tate Modern aims to demonstrate that she was an important figure in the history of modernism perhaps the first abstract modern artist in Lebanon and even the Arab world.

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The most enduring embargo in modern day history is a remnant of a Cold War past when the Soviet Union was the enemy and the world was on the brink of nuclear war.

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