Im Kampf des Guten gegen das Böse ist es immer die einfache Bevölkerung, die die Toten stellt. Die Terroristen haben in New York und in Washington Arbeiter aus 50 Ländern umgebracht, im Namen des Guten gegen das Böse. Und im Namen des Guten gegen das Böse, schwört Präsident Bush Rache: „Wir werden das Böse aus dieser Welt auslöschen“, kündigt er an.
Das Böse auslöschen? Was wäre das Gute ohne das Böse? Nicht nur die religiösen Fanatiker benötigen Feinde, um ihren Wahnsinn zu rechtfertigen. Um ihre Existenz zu rechtfertigen, benötigen auch die Rüstungsindustrie und der gigantische Militärapparat der USA Feinde. Gute und Böse, Böse und Gute: die Akteure vertauschen die Masken, die Helden werden zu Monstern und die Monster zu Helden, ganz wie es diejenigen fordern, die das Drama schreiben.
International boundaries are places of abrupt transition, where a conceptual cartographic line can manifest itself physically in many ways. Along the US/Canada border, it is often in the form of a low fence or a cut-line through the trees, running along the path of the border. If roads head to the border in a perpendicular fashion, from either side, and do not hit a natural obstacle like a river, they are usually blocked by earthen berms, posts, guardrail, or overgrowth. If the road goes through the border, it usually has an inspection station, one for each country, on either side of the line.
One of the largest private archives of historical documents from the 1800s through 1954 with concentrations in Steamship and Ocean Liner documents and photographs, Passenger Lists, U.S. Navy Archives and addtional materials covering World Wars I and II, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Immigration documents from Ellis Island, Castle Garden and other Immigration Stations.
Taylor's illustrations contributed to 19th century Euro-American stereotypes of Native Americans. This drawing of the kidnapping of Josephine Meeker appeared in Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in 1880.
The historical map collection has over 21,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented.
Joan Didion wrote in "The White Album," her book on the era, that "many people I know in Los Angeles believed the '60s ended abruptly on Aug. 9, 1969." Sketchy details began emerging that day from a gruesome murder scene in exclusive Benedict Canyon. The fenced estate had been the home at various times of Henry Fonda, Candice Bergen and, more recently, Roman Polanski, the hot young director of the previous year's film sensation, Rosemary's Baby
This collection currently includes the narrative reports of the commissioner of Indian affairs for 1871, 1872, 1874, 1875, and 1876, and three additional reports for 1871