Tag: history
group name: britannica
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August 14, 2006 02:17 PM EDT --
(Excerpted from an article written by R. Murray Thomas, Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, that appeared in the 2006 Britannica Book of the Year.)
Over . . . more
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October 02, 2006 05:56 PM EDT --
This Day in History --
1836: Charles Darwin's return to England
Naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England this day in 1836 after a five-year journey on the HMS Beagle, on which he gathered . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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June 13, 2006 06:42 PM EDT --
Digging At The Roots of Grammar
George Corneliussen
BTW, LOL, 24/7, correct grammar or popular usage? When did grammar begin to morph into the self-defined format it occupies in today's world of . . . more
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October 09, 2006 11:45 AM EDT --
Christopher Columbus died 500 years ago this year, but how should Americans remember him this Columbus Day? Was he the grand explorer deserving of the honor long accorded him, or was he a rank imperialist . . . more
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October 08, 2006 09:07 PM EDT --
America has celebrated Columbus Day as a national holiday since 1937, but it had been celebrated in some form for decades prior by Italian-Americans and other Catholic minorities of the day. It is . . . more
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September 22, 2006 08:56 AM EDT --
A recent MSBNC article on college costs reports that some of the more expensive schools are offering posh dorm rooms and other amenities along with their $40,000 per years tuition. Some students, . . . more
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September 05, 2006 03:50 PM EDT --
From experience we know we are of many minds, some that pursue the nobler purposes of consciousness and some that succumb to lesser ones. Institutions like individuals labor under the . . . more
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July 29, 2006 08:51 AM EDT --
George Corneliussen
Quote: " In our time, most fortunately for human welfare, the underlying motive of public education has begun to receive the attention it deserves from those who administer . . . more
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December 08, 2006 04:09 PM EST --
This is the first in a series of articles about the riots in 1968 Baltimore and Gov. Spiro T. Agnew's response.
Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 1968, a black teenager tossed a brick through . . . more
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July 14, 2007 12:51 AM EDT --
Imagine that you woke up tomorrow morning with little memory of what had come before. Let's say you still knew who you were, how to go about most of your daily tasks, but could recall almost nothing . . . more
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September 28, 2006 09:48 AM EDT --
This Day in History --
1958: Madagascar voted for autonomy within the French Community.
1920: In what became known as the Black Sox Scandal, eight members of the Chicago White . . . more
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January 06, 2008 10:20 AM EST --
Politics has often be referred to as "the art of the possible", but paralleling the growth of extreme and hard line religious factions in many mainstream religions of the . . . more
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July 18, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
"I know that God is always on the side of right; my concern is not whether God is on our side but whether or not we are on God's side."
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December 08, 2007 01:12 PM EST --
William Saletan, writing in Slate, criticizes a study that appeared in Nature Neuroscience that concludes that “conservatives” are less intelligent, . . . more
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December 16, 2007 08:11 PM EST --
A growing number of states are deciding not to apply for Federal Health and Human Services funds dedicated to abstinence only education. At least 14 states . . . more
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July 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . . more
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August 31, 2006 05:21 PM EDT --
Quote of the Day
"Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd."
William Cowper, Retirement
Biography of the Day
On this day in 1997, Princess Diana died in . . . more
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September 19, 2006 06:42 PM EDT --
Biography of the Day - Sir William Golding
English novelist Sir William Golding, born this day in 1911, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 for his parables of the human condition, most notably . . . more
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