So, while we properly inveigh against the new poisoning, history is not likely to justify the pose of righteousness which some in the West were so quick to assume when Mr. Khrushchev made his cynical and irresponsible threat.

They hope that if history vouchsafes the West another Budapest, we will receive the opportunity gladly.

George Kennan's account of relations between Russia and the West from the fall of Tsarism to the end of World War 2, is the finest piece of diplomatic history that has appeared in many years.

One of the persistent myths of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time.

With its history of colonialism, trade and piracy, the West Indies was the setting for many 17th and 18th-century maritime incidents.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

The Diamondbacks eventually clinched the NL West division title, but the Rockies shot up with one of the greatest comebacks in baseball history.

The two main written sources for early West Saxon history are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List.

The first event in West Saxon history, the date of which can be regarded as reasonably certain, is the baptism of Cynegils, which occurred in the late 630s, perhaps as late as 640.

Ceawlin clearly is part of the West Saxon expansion, but the military history of the period is difficult to understand.

It is the largest single donation in the history of CUNY and has been used to buy a landmark building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that is to become the permanent home of the Honors College, and will add support to its endowment.

* 2004 – A gang of thieves steal £ 26. 5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of the largest bank robberies in UK history.

In 1975, as a Second Division team, they contested the FA Cup final for the only time in their history, losing 2 – 0 to West Ham United.

* No-Hitters: Marlins pitchers have issued four no-hitters in team regular-season history, all coming against teams in the NL West.

More on the history of the town and the region can be found in the West Highland Museum on the High Street.

The city is close to the former late medieval / modern boundary between West Slavic and Germanic lands and it has a complex political history with periods of Polish rule, periods of German rule, and extensive self-rule, with two spells as a free city.

The last three books ( 14-16 ), describe Danish conquests on the south shore of the Baltic Sea and wars against Slavic peoples ( the Northern Crusades ), are very valuable for the history of West Slavic tribes ( Polabian Slavs, Pomeranians ) and Slavic paganism.

He was the first chancellor ( top official ) of the FRG, 1949 – 63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history.

For the only time in West Germany's history, the government fell on a vote of no confidence.

Daniel Dubuisson writes that " what the West and the history of religions in its wake have objectified under the name ' religion ' is ... something quite unique, which could be appropriate only to itself and its own history.

Benjamin West, " The Death of General Wolfe " ( 1770 ), an early example of the vogue for painting scenes from recent history.

Boyarin suggests that this in part reflects the fact that much of Judaism's more than 3, 000-year history predates the rise of Western culture and occurred outside the West ( that is, Europe, particularly medieval and modern Europe ).

* Historia Antipodum, 1655, a history of the West Indies

His efforts left a significant impression upon the missionary history of India and, as one of the first Jesuit missionaries to the East Indies, his work is of fundamental significance to Christians in the propagation of Christianity in China and Japan.

The West Indies teams of the 1980s, which regularly fielded a bowling attack comprising some of the best fast bowlers in cricket history, were perhaps the most feared exponents.

This massacre of the Chinese was deemed sufficiently serious for the board of the VOC to start an official investigation into the Government of the Dutch East Indies for the first time in its history.

The islands of Madeira have a long winemaking history, dating back to the Age of Exploration when Madeira was a standard port of call for ships heading to the New World or East Indies.

Gavaskar was widely admired for his technique against fast bowling, with a particularly high average of 65. 45 against the West Indies, who possessed a four-pronged fast bowling attack regarded as the most vicious in Test history.

The site was first recorded in written history by Spanish conquistador and self-acclaimed " first chronicler of the Indies " Pedro Cieza de León.

The early colonial history of the islands, like that of the Caribbean, is a confusing story of takeovers between the rival Portuguese, Dutch, French and British colonizers, usually separate or in varying combinations, sometimes even with distant other colonies, e. g. in the East Indies.

Born into a working-class family, Rodney was a very bright student, attending Queen's College in Guyana, where he became a champion debater and athlete, and then attending university on a scholarship at the University College of the West Indies ( UCWI ) in Jamaica, graduating in 1963 with a first in history, thereby winning the Faculty of Arts prize.

When Hughes returned to bowl in the West Indies second innings, he trapped Gordon Greenidge lbw with his first ball, completing a hat-trick over two different innings and becoming the only player in Test cricket history to achieve the three wickets of a hat-trick in three different overs.

This is the point where the currency history of British Honduras diverges from that of the rest of the British West Indies.

Catesbaea, lily-thorn, a genus of thorny shrubs belonging to Rubiaceae ( madder family ) from the West Indies and southeastern USA was named after Catesby by Linnaeus in 1753 in his " Species plantarum " ( volume 1, pp 108-109 ), based on plate 100 in volume 2 of Catesby's " Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands ".

According to " Te Rii Ni Banaba — The Backbone of Banaba " by Raobeia Ken Sigrah, Banaban oral history supports the claim that the people of the Te Aka clan, which originated in Melanesia, were the original inhabitants of Banaba ( Ocean Island ), having arrived before the arrival of later migrations from the East Indies and Kiribati.

For a wider outline of the history of currency in the region see Currencies of the British West Indies.

* Early history of money in the British West Indies Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago

* Early history of money in the British West Indies, Central Bank of Barbados

Earl Lovelace's novel " The dragon can't dance " uses the theme of the Carnival dance to explore social change and history in the West Indies.

On 17 December 2009 in the Australia v West Indies 3rd Test Chris Gayle scored the fifth fastest century in Test match history.

Maharoof produced one of the most economical bowling displays in ODI history, conceding nine rune from ten overs against the West Indies for which he was named Man of the Match.

The dioramas first show scenes from Indonesian history beginning from the earliest days of colonialism and the Srivijaya and Majapahit eras followed events from the period of European colonialization and uprisings against Dutch East Indies rule.

Among them was the history of West Indies by Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa translated into English, and the modern history of Romania.

Injuries seemed to hit him at wrong times, and he missed the history making West Indies tour of 1995 and the 1996 World Cup.

In fact, two of the closest Tests that Australia lost, McDermott played a key role – In 1993, Australia lost the pivotal closest match in Test history by 1 run to West Indies when McDermott, on 18 and batting with stout resistance, was given out controversially when attempting to play a bouncer from Courtney Walsh.