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The publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 sent shock waves through state agencies. The following year, in 1963, the Arkansas branch of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife (which later became the US Fish and Wildlife Service) imported grass carp as an organic treatment for catfish ponds. Carp, with their voracious appetites for plankton, were a chemical-free filter. When the approach proved successful, additional species — black, silver, and bighead carp — were brought from Vietnam and Malaysia, and later from China and Russia as well. Without differentiating among the species, agencies like the US Department of...

Few figures of the 20th Century have been as relentlessly maligned as Francisco Franco Bahamonde, who ruled as Spain’s Caudillo (supreme leader) from 1939 until his death in 1975. Franco’s death was celebrated with vulgar, vindictive glee in the obituary columns of Establishment publications that had treated the passing of Communist mass murderers with respectful solemnity.

Russians in Syria 'act like Nazis in Guernica' Former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell has condemned Russia for its part in the siege of Aleppo. Tuesday 11 October 2016 Russia is behaving in Syria as the Nazis did during the bombing of Guernica in Spain in 1937, according to Tory MP Andrew Mitchell. Mr Mitchell accused Moscow of "shredding the international rules-based system of law", ahead of an urgent Commons debate on the humanitarian situation in Aleppo. The former international development secretary compared the Kremlin's role in the conflict to that of the Nazis during the Spanish Civil War over...

(How will people act out driving when Minority Report & AI - Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence come true?) How will the Left move us from Big Br'O's Al Capone Chicago 1924-1932, to Spain 1936? (For Whom the Bell Tolls had no heroic images of liquidating 4,000 bishops, priests, brothers & sisters.) The Left Will Have to take a screeching u-turn on its anti-gun rhetoric if it will ever finally succeed in making blood flow in America's streets. Imagine a liberal NRA.

<p>A tapestry of Pablo Picasso's powerful anti-war tableau "Guernica" has hung outside the U.N. Security Council since 1985, and it would be difficult to imagine a more fitting example of site-specific art.</p> <p>The original 1937 painting depicts the terrorized and dying civilians at Guernica, a small Basque village in northern Spain that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Nationalist regime, battling the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War, allowed the German air force to use for target practice. About 1,600 civilians were killed or wounded in three hours of bombardment.</p>