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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None saw Britain as a modern world power free of the psychological burdens of history.

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History does have a way of repeating itself, so perhaps our papered money modern world will rediscover silver.

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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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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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Ambassador SATTERFIELD: Steve, the United States makes statements of intent to countries around the world, and has done so throughout its modern history.

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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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But I think the modern history really dates to the Watergate hearings where, for a period of months, people around the country and the world were riveted to their screens to see how the news was advanced every single day.

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