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List of federal political scandals in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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List of federal political scandals in the United States
00:00:10 1 Scope and organization of political scandals
00:02:50 2 Federal government scandals
00:03:00 2.1 Donald Trump administration (2017–present)
00:03:11 2.1.1 Executive Branch
00:08:36 2.1.2 Legislative Branch
00:11:53 2.1.3 Judicial Branch
00:12:12 2.2 Barack Obama administration (2009–2017)
00:12:24 2.2.1 Executive Branch
00:15:59 2.2.2 Legislative Branch
00:25:36 2.2.3 Judicial Branch
00:27:12 2.3 George W. Bush administration (2001–2009)
00:27:21 2.3.1 Executive Branch
00:45:15 2.3.2 Legislative Branch
00:52:39 2.4 Bill Clinton administration (1993–2001)
00:52:51 2.4.1 Executive Branch
00:54:44 2.4.2 Legislative Branch
00:59:56 2.5 George H. W. Bush administration (1989–1993)
01:00:05 2.5.1 Executive Branch
01:01:44 2.5.2 Legislative Branch
01:02:40 2.5.3 Judicial Branch
01:03:06 2.6 Ronald Reagan administration (1981–1989)
01:03:19 2.6.1 Executive Branch
01:15:06 2.6.2 Legislative Branch
01:19:52 2.6.3 Judicial Branch
01:20:21 2.7 James E. Carter administration (1977–1981)
01:20:30 2.7.1 Executive Branch
01:20:47 2.7.2 Legislative branch
01:23:29 2.7.3 Judicial
01:24:07 2.8 Gerald Ford administration (1974–1977)
01:24:20 2.8.1 Executive Branch
01:24:52 2.8.2 Legislative Branch
01:26:53 2.9 Richard M. Nixon administration (1969–1974)
01:27:02 2.9.1 Executive Branch
01:31:48 2.9.2 Legislative Branch
01:34:06 2.9.3 Judicial Branch
01:35:11 2.10 Lyndon B. Johnson administration (1963–1969)
01:35:20 2.10.1 Executive Branch
01:35:41 2.10.2 Legislative Branch
01:36:54 2.10.3 Judicial Branch
01:37:14 2.11 John F. Kennedy administration (1961–1963)
01:37:23 2.11.1 Legislative Branch
01:38:05 2.12 Dwight D. Eisenhower administration (1953–1961)
01:38:14 2.12.1 Executive Branch
01:39:09 2.12.2 Legislative Branch
01:40:29 2.13 Harry S. Truman administration (1945–1953)
01:40:38 2.13.1 Executive Branch
01:41:11 2.13.2 Legislative Branch
01:42:20 2.14 Franklin Delano Roosevelt administration (1933–1945)
01:42:34 2.14.1 Executive Branch
01:42:53 2.14.2 Legislative Branch
01:43:29 2.14.3 Judicial Branch
01:44:22 2.15 Herbert Hoover administration (1929–1933)
01:44:34 2.15.1 Legislative Branch
01:45:13 2.16 Calvin Coolidge administration (1923–1929)
01:45:25 2.16.1 Executive
01:45:57 2.16.2 Legislative
01:46:48 2.16.3 Judicial
01:47:08 2.17 Warren G. Harding administration (1921–1923)
01:47:16 2.17.1 Executive Branch
01:48:51 2.17.2 Legislative Branch
01:49:42 2.18 Woodrow Wilson administration (1913–1921)
01:49:55 2.18.1 Executive Branch
01:50:24 2.19 William Howard Taft administration (1909–1913)
01:50:37 2.19.1 Legislative Branch
01:51:13 2.19.2 Judicial Branch
01:51:43 2.20 Theodore Roosevelt administration (1901–1909)
01:51:56 2.20.1 Legislative Branch
01:52:40 2.20.2 Judicial Branch
01:53:01 2.21 William McKinley administration (1897–1901)
01:53:14 2.21.1 Executive Branch
01:53:55 2.21.2 Legislative Branch
01:54:35 2.22 Grover Cleveland administration (1885–1889)
01:54:47 2.22.1 Legislative Branch
01:55:09 2.23 Chester A. Arthur administration (1881–1885)
01:55:18 2.23.1 Executive Branch
01:55:49 2.24 James A. Garfield administration (1881–1881)
01:55:58 2.24.1 Legislative Branch
01:56:21 2.25 Rutherford B. Hayes administration (1877–1881)
01:56:30 2.25.1 Executive Branch
01:56:50 2.25.2 Judicial Branch
01:57:28 2.26 Ulysses S. Grant administration (1869–1877)
01:57:37 2.26.1 Executive Branch
01:59:45 2.26.2 Legislative Branch
02:00:53 2.26.3 Judicial Branch
02:01:54 2.27 Andrew Johnson administration (1865–1869)
02:02:07 2.27.1 Executive branch
02:02:25 2.28 Abraham Lincoln administration (1861–1865)
02:02:38 2.28.1 Executive Branch
02:03:15 2.28.2 Legislative Branch
02:04:05 2.29 James Buchanan administration (1857–1861)
02:04:18 2.29.1 Legislative Branch
02:05:01 2.30 Zachary Taylor administration (1849–1850)
02:05:13 2.30.1 Executive Branch
02:05:44 2.31 Andrew Jackson administrations (1829–1836)
02:05:57 2.31.1 Executive Branch
02:06:41 2.31.2 Legislative Branch
02:07:07 2.32 James Monroe administrations (1817–1824)
02:07:20 2.32.1 Legislative Branch
02:07:36 2.33 Thomas Jefferson administrations (1801–1808)
02:07:48 2.33.1 Executive Branch
02:08:36 2.33.2 Judicial Branch
02:09:08 2.34 John Adams administration (1797–1800)
02:09:20 2.34.1 Executive Branch
02:09:49 2.34.2 Legislative Branch
02:10:18 2.35 George Washington administration (1789–1796)
02:10:30 2.35.1 Legislative Branch
02:10:49 2.36 Government under the Articles of Confederation (1777–1788)
02:11:03 2.36.1 Executive Branch
02:11:24 2.36.2 Legislative Branch
02:11:47 3 See also
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Italian Americans | Wikipedia audio article
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Italian Americans
00:02:45 1 History
00:02:54 1.1 Early period (1492–1775)
00:07:08 1.2 War of Independence to Civil War (1775–1861)
00:11:39 1.3 Civil War and after (1861–90)
00:14:44 1.4 The period of mass immigration (1890–1920)
00:27:26 1.5 1917-1941
00:35:04 1.6 World War II
00:39:05 1.7 Wartime violation of Italian-American civil liberties
00:42:20 1.8 Post-World War II period
00:48:37 1.9 Close of the twentieth century
00:51:49 2 Politics
00:55:57 3 Business and economy
00:56:58 3.1 Workers
00:58:50 3.2 Women
01:04:17 4 Culture
01:07:10 4.1 Literature
01:13:06 4.2 Religion
01:16:56 4.2.1 Italian Jews
01:20:04 4.3 Education
01:21:23 4.4 Language
01:27:55 4.5 Newspapers
01:32:17 4.6 Folklore
01:34:15 5 Discrimination and stereotyping
01:40:52 6 Communities
01:43:01 6.1 New York City
01:46:25 6.2 Philadelphia
01:49:15 6.3 Boston
01:50:19 6.4 Newark
01:52:12 6.5 Saint Louis
01:52:21 6.6 Syracuse
01:53:42 6.7 Providence
01:54:34 6.8 Chicago
01:56:57 6.9 Cleveland
01:58:41 6.10 Milwaukee
01:59:39 6.11 Ybor City
02:00:57 6.12 Birmingham
02:01:39 6.13 San Francisco
02:02:10 6.14 Los Angeles
02:03:29 6.15 San Diego
02:04:43 7 Demographics
02:10:14 7.1 U.S. States with over 10% people of Italian ancestry
02:10:48 7.2 U.S. Communities with the most residents of Italian ancestry
02:13:05 8 Notable people
02:13:14 9 See also
02:13:55 10 References and notes
02:14:05 11 Bibliography
02:14:14 12 External links
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Italian Americans (Italian: italoamericani or italo-americani [ˌitalo.ameriˈkaːni]) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have ancestry from Italy. Italian Americans are the seventh largest Census-reported ethnic group in the United States (which includes American ethnicity, an ethnonym used by many in the United States; overall, Italian Americans rank seventh, behind German American, African American, Irish American, Mexican American, English American, and American).About 5.5 million Italians immigrated to the United States from 1820 to 2004. By 1870, there were less than 25,000 Italian immigrants in America, many of them Northern Italian refugees from the wars that accompanied the Risorgimento—the struggle for Italian unification and independence from foreign rule. Immigration began to increase during the 1870s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated (1870–79: 46,296) than during the five previous decades combined (1820–69: 22,627). The 1870s were followed by the greatest surge of immigration, which occurred between 1880 and 1914 and brought more than 4 million Italians to the United States, the great majority being from Southern Italy and Sicily, with most having agrarian backgrounds. This period of large scale immigration ended abruptly with the onset of the First World War in 1914 and, except for one year (1922), never fully resumed.
Further immigration was greatly limited by several laws Congress passed in the 1920s.Approximately 84% of the Italian immigrants came from the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. This was the poorest and least developed part of Italy, still largely rural and agricultural, where much of the populace had been impoverished by centuries of foreign misrule, and an oppressive taxation system imposed after Italian unification in 1861. After unification, the Italian government initially encouraged emigration to relieve economic pressures in the South. After the American Civil War, which resulted in over a half million killed or wounded, immigrant workers were recruited from Italy and elsewhere to fill the labor shortage caused by the war. In the United States, most Italians began their new lives as manual laborers in Eastern cities, mining camps and in agriculture.
The descendants of the Italian immigrants gradually rose from a lower economic class in the first generation to a level comparable to the national average by 1970. The Italian community has often been characterized by strong ties to family, the Roma ...
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Role of Christianity in civilization | Wikipedia audio article
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Role of Christianity in civilization
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The role of Christianity in civilization has been intricately intertwined with the history and formation of Western society. Throughout its long history, the Church has been a major source of social services like schooling and medical care; inspiration for art, culture and philosophy; and influential player in politics and religion. In various ways it has sought to affect Western attitudes to vice and virtue in diverse fields. Festivals like Easter and Christmas are marked as public holidays; the Gregorian Calendar has been adopted internationally as the civil calendar; and the calendar itself is measured from the date of Jesus's birth.
The cultural influence of the Church has been vast. Church scholars preserved literacy in Western Europe following the Fall of the Western Roman Empire. During the Middle Ages, the Church rose to replace the Roman Empire as the unifying force in Europe. The cathedrals of that age remain among the most iconic feats of architecture produced by Western civilization. Many of Europe's universities were also founded by the church at that time. Many historians state that universities and cathedral schools were a continuation of the interest in learning promoted by monasteries. The university is generally regarded as an institution that has its origin in the Medieval Christian setting, born from Cathedral schools. The Reformation brought an end to religious unity in the West, but the Renaissance masterpieces produced by Catholic artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael at that time remain among the most celebrated works of art ever produced. Similarly, Christian sacred music by composers like Pachelbel, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Liszt, and Verdi is among the most admired classical music in the Western canon.
The Bible and Christian theology have also strongly influenced Western philosophers and political activists. The teachings of Jesus, such as the Parable of the Good Samaritan, are among the important sources for modern notions of Human Rights and the welfare measures commonly provided by governments in the West. Long held Christian teachings on sexuality and marriage and family life have also been both influential and (in recent times) controversial. Christianity played a role in ending practices such as human sacrifice, slavery, infanticide and polygamy. Christianity in general affected the status of women by condemning marital infidelity, divorce, incest, polygamy, birth control, infanticide (female infants were more likely to be killed), and abortion. While official Church teaching considers women and men to be complementary (equal and different), some modern advocates of ordination of women and other feminists argue that teachings attributed to St. Paul and those of the Fathers of the Church and Scholastic theologians advanced the notion of a divinely ordained female inferiority. Nevertheless, women have played prominent roles in Western history through and as part of the church, particularly in education and healthcare, but also as influential theologians and mystics.
Christians have made a myriad contributions to human progress in a broad and diverse range of fields, both historically and in modern times, including the science and technology, medicine, fine arts and architecture, politics, literatures, Music, philanthropy, philosophy, ethics, theatre and business. According to 100 Years of Nobel Prizes a review of Nobel prizes award between 1901 and 2000 reveals that (65.4%) of Nobel Prizes Laureates, have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference. Eastern Christians (particularly Nestorian Christians) have also contributed to the Arab Islamic Civilization during the Ummayad and the Abbasid periods by translating works of Greek philosophers to Syriac and afterwards to Arabic. They also excelled in philosophy, science, theolo ...
Role of Christianity in civilization | Wikipedia audio article
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Role of Christianity in civilization
00:04:17 1 Politics and law
00:04:26 1.1 From persecuted minority to State Religion
00:06:27 1.1.1 Human value
00:08:55 1.1.1.1 Women
00:11:22 1.1.1.2 Children
00:12:10 1.1.2 Constantine
00:15:01 1.1.3 Fourth Century
00:15:30 1.1.4 The Fall of Rome
00:16:50 1.1.4.1 The Dark Ages
00:18:27 1.2 Medieval period
00:18:36 1.2.1 Early Middle Ages
00:19:43 1.2.2 High Middle Ages
00:21:22 1.2.2.1 Inquisition
00:22:42 1.2.3 Late Middle Ages
00:22:50 1.2.3.1 Women
00:25:12 1.2.3.2 The Popes
00:27:17 1.2.4 Crusade
00:29:20 1.2.5 Human Rights
00:31:34 1.3 Reformation until Modern era
00:34:39 2 Sexual morals
00:39:08 3 Marriage and family life
00:41:34 3.1 Roman Empire
00:43:39 3.2 Medieval period
00:44:37 4 Slavery
00:46:41 4.1 Latin America
00:49:16 4.2 Africa
00:50:44 5 Letters and learning
00:54:50 5.1 Antiquity
00:56:48 5.2 Byzantine Empire
00:59:14 5.3 Preservation of Classical learning
01:02:11 5.4 Index Librorum Prohibitorum
01:03:49 5.5 Protestant role in science
01:05:09 5.6 Astronomy
01:09:27 5.7 Evolution
01:11:18 5.8 Embryonic stem cell research
01:12:19 6 Art, architecture, literature, and music
01:20:30 7 Economic development
01:21:32 7.1 Protestant work ethic
01:23:41 8 Social justice, care-giving, and the hospital system
01:24:20 8.1 Fourth Century
01:26:06 8.2 Medieval period
01:26:47 8.3 Industrial Revolution
01:30:27 9 Education
01:33:02 9.1 Europe
01:37:05 9.2 Latin America
01:37:35 9.3 North America
01:38:24 9.4 Australasia
01:39:11 9.5 Africa
01:39:58 9.6 Asia
01:40:12 9.7 Protestant role in education
01:41:34 10 See also
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- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The role of Christianity in civilization has been intricately intertwined with the history and formation of Western society. Throughout its long history, the Church has been a major source of social services like schooling and medical care; inspiration for art, culture and philosophy; and influential player in politics and religion. In various ways it has sought to affect Western attitudes to vice and virtue in diverse fields. Festivals like Easter and Christmas are marked as public holidays; the Gregorian Calendar has been adopted internationally as the civil calendar; and the calendar itself is measured from the date of Jesus's birth.
The cultural influence of the Church has been vast. Church scholars preserved literacy in Western Europe following the Fall of the Western Roman Empire. During the Middle Ages, the Church rose to replace the Roman Empire as the unifying force in Europe. The cathedrals of that age remain among the most iconic feats of architecture produced by Western civilization. Many of Europe's universities were also founded by the church at that time. Many historians state that universities and cathedral schools were a continuation of the interest in learning promoted by monasteries. The university is generally regarded as an institution that has its origin in the Medieval Christian setting, born from Cathedral schools. The Reformation brought an end to religious unity in the West, but the Renaissance masterpieces produced by Catholic artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael at that time remain among the most celebrated works of art ever produced. Similarly, Christian sacred music by composers like Pachelbel, Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Liszt, and Verdi is among the most admired classical music in the Western canon.
The Bible and Christian theology have also strongly influenced Western philosophers and political activists. The teachings of Jesus, such as the Parable of the Good Samaritan, are among the important sources for modern notions of Human Rights and the welfare measures commonly provided by governments in the West. Long held Christian teachings on sexuality and marriage and family life have also been both influential and (in recent times) controversial. Christianity played a role in ending practices such as human sacrifice, slavery, ...