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

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When Jorge Bergoglio stepped onto the balcony at the Vatican on Wednesday evening to reveal himself as the new leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics, he made history as the first non-European pope of the modern era, the first from Latin America, the first Jesuit and the first to assume the name Francis.

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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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