Tag: history
group name: politicsjustice
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October 08, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
Although we remember Rome more as an empire, for almost half her history she was in fact a republic, and like us, an altogether imperfect, yet earnest, democracy. This now rather obscure fact was . . .
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October 04, 2009 01:23 AM EDT --
You may have seen this one already.
Gun History After reading the following historical facts, read the part about . . .
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May 19, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
For many years, and especially in the 1600's, the Irish were the main source of slaves sent from England to America and the West Indies. Did you know that?
I am Irish by heritage, and until recently, . . .
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October 07, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
Jon Meacham, the editor of Newsweek, and the author of “American Gospel” and “Franklin and Winston,” writes in the New York Times:
[....The only acknowledgment . . .
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January 29, 2007 07:54 PM EST --
As a high school teacher one day in history class I asked the students why are we the world police? I got a lot of blank looks back, one student said "the constitution?" I ask you on what basis . . .
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June 18, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
Kenneth Davis knows that history is complicated.
American history textbooks and oral history give us perfect role models in our historical figures and an unfolding story in which we were always . . .
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February 18, 2007 05:46 PM EST --
Did you know…
That in Brazil there are over 130 words used to describe skin color?
That the sickle cell . . .
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July 11, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Pope Benedict XVI, reasserting the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, has approved the release of an document that states that all other Christian denomination are either defective or not . . .
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February 20, 2007 01:53 PM EST --
As another Black History Month winds down, I started wondering if it is really even necessary anymore.
I’ll be honest, I’m torn on this issue.
On the one hand I thought, . . .
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January 18, 2007 01:51 AM EST --
President Bush’s recent decision to increase the number of troops we’ve got on the ground in Iraq, against what poles show to be over whelming opposition from the American people, brings up . . .
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December 21, 2005 05:46 PM EST --
This was posted 2 years ago, before groups existed on Gather
Several times in the recent past I have heard the term "fascist" applied pejoratively . . .
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September 22, 2008 12:50 PM EDT --
President Bush said: "There will be ample opportunity to debate the origins of this problem. Now is the time to solve it." But as Gore Vidal once noted, the US government prefers . . .
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January 16, 2007 02:09 PM EST --
The story of a fugitive slave and bounty hunter is one of betrayal and trust—and the deepest of all emotions, the love a parent has for a child
As a writer of non-fiction with a special interest . . .
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June 15, 2009 10:54 PM EDT --
What has many Iranians upset about the election is the impression that the voting was not fair. This may not be so, but the behavior of the government offended the people's sense . . .
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September 08, 2008 09:34 AM EDT --
September 8, 2008 - Outside Keokuk, IA (BIA) - In a surprise move, Barack Obama has pulled Joe Biden off the 2008 Democratic ticket, telling him that his services are no longer required on the campaign . . .
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May 26, 2008 07:08 PM EDT --
I was born in late 1940, almost a year to the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941, marking our entry into WWII. I contracted measles and chickenpox before . . .
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June 11, 2007 11:39 AM EDT --
It may look like any other natural history museum, but some might say this one is very creative. The Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky features a lot of dinosaurs, but these friendly giants . . .
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April 28, 2008 01:55 PM EDT --
"Motor grader operators work with loaded carbines at their sides; ... scrapers cut roads across the shadows of hastily prepared gun emplacements; a lean, tanned construction superintendent . . .
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July 29, 2009 09:24 AM EDT --
Engdahl's 'Full Spectrum Dominance' Reviewed By Stephen Lendman
http://www.rense.com/general86/revi.htm
Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order' - Part II
For . . .
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April 15, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
You’re a Methodist; I’m a Methodist, or Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, or any of the other Christian denominations. We share the same theology, beliefs and values, and yet in too . . .
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