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Any Italian American generally aware of the vicious discrimination Italians in the United States faced in the late nineteenth and well into twentieth centuries, and aware in particular of how so many Italian immigrants were automatically assumed to be...
by PeterBalesHistoryTales
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 09:41 PM PST
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LGBT Literature is a Readers and Book Lovers series dedicated to discussing books that have made an impact on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. From fiction to ...
by Chrislove
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 04:30 PM PST
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Over twenty years ago, I described the investor visa (EB-5) program to my boss at the time. Essentially, you get a green card if you invest a million dollars and show you’ve created or preserved 10 jobs. She heard this and wondered how this comported...
by subir
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 08:04 PM PST
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Please post this link on your social media spaces so that it gets spread far and wide. We must remember history to prevent it from repeating. 1933's Germany is extremely similar to 2017's America. The parallels are so easy to see that you might feel...
by JShCD15
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on Sat Jan 28, 2017 at 12:46 PM PST
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Classical Greek civilization, which began in 490 BCE with Greek victories over the Persians and ended in 330 BCE with the reign of Alexander the Great, had a great impact on European societies and ...
by Ojibwa
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on Sun Jan 29, 2017 at 08:30 AM PST
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I think this administration is morally opposed to reason. Today the White House issued an official statement to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. But Trump’s statement has some glaring commissions: it mentions Nazis, but not the...
by wagatwe
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on Fri Jan 27, 2017 at 11:52 AM PST
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If you have problems with high blood pressure, you might want to do a few deep breaths before reading this. In a new book by Timothy Dyson titled The Blood of Emmett Till, the author reveals a bombshell fact about the case surrounding the 14-year-old...
by wagatwe
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on Fri Jan 27, 2017 at 09:02 AM PST
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I’ve noticed a tendency by some to speak of President Barack Obama and his tenure in terms that come close to deification. Please stop it. We ridicule the GOP for their deification of Reagan. ...
by TexDem
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on Fri Jan 27, 2017 at 07:30 AM PST
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I am a retired international trade attorney and former federal employee who had, among other tasks, a minor role in drafting a section of our major free trade agreements and the implementing regulations. Several folks here have asked me to write this...
by Navy Vet Terp
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on Fri Jan 27, 2017 at 08:26 AM PST
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There's an insidious threat, a threat relatively hidden in this whirlwind of dangerously chaotic government. A threat made manifest in Trump's recent picks: Mike Pence for VP, Sessions for AG, DeVos for Education, Carson for HUD, and Pruitt for EPA....
by Activate Virginia
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on Fri Jan 27, 2017 at 12:18 AM PST
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Being home bound, I have the t.v. on all day to a mix of CNN and MSNBC. It’s background noise, and it gives me useful grist for some of these diaries. I try to be open minded, and I tend ...
by Murfster35
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on Fri Jan 27, 2017 at 07:00 AM PST
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Night will fall and drown the sun...
Thanks to Trump, Scientists Are Planning to Run For Office by Ed Yong
The Atlantic, 01/25/17
For American science, the next four years look to be challenging. The newly inaugurated President Trump, and...
by Randle Aubrey
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on Wed Jan 25, 2017 at 04:05 PM PST
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I did some math the other day. I’ve had 23 addresses in nine states. Part of it a military brat, but when I had the choice for college, grad school, or a place to work I always chose the far off place. I wanted to experience the world. I wanted to...
by webranding
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on Wed Jan 25, 2017 at 06:18 AM PST
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As the Alamo was under siege by the Mexican forces under Santa Anna in 1836, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Texas, led by Sam Houston, was arguing ineffectually over what to do, and ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Fri Jan 27, 2017 at 12:00 PM PST
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The USS Texas , of the New York class, is the only pre-World War One “dreadnought” that still survives. Built in 1911 and launched in 1912, she has ten 14-inch main guns, and was the first US ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Wed Jan 25, 2017 at 12:00 PM PST
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Are you one of the millions worldwide who participated in the Women’s March? Did you have a really great sign at home that’s taking up space because you just can’t bear to throw it away? Good news! Now you can reduce clutter, be green, and donate...
by wagatwe
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on Tue Jan 24, 2017 at 02:29 PM PST
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As if it weren’t enough that sales of March: Book Three increased a gazillion percent after Donald Trump criticized civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D, Ga) on Twitter, the graphic novel based on the historic voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and...
by Sher Watts Spooner
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on Tue Jan 24, 2017 at 07:40 AM PST
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The predatory mindset of colonialism must be exorcised from the soul of the United States through decolonization/denazification. Duncan Campbell Scott, an Indian Affairs Superintendent, created the term "Final Solution." Consequentially, the word...
by Winter Rabbit
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on Tue Jan 24, 2017 at 03:07 AM PST
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The early nineteenth century was a period in which American Indians came into contact with non-Indian explorers and missionaries.
by Ojibwa
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on Tue Jan 24, 2017 at 08:30 AM PST
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Death is something most of us would prefer not to think about. As a society, we try to keep Death at a distance: we put our sick and dying behind hospital walls where they are invisible, and we ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Tue Jan 24, 2017 at 12:00 PM PST
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