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Image of the Day -- The Site of the Next USA Football "World Championship"...
Image from, with caption: Imagine hanging Hubert Robert 's "Colosseum" in your home; see also.
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New librarian of Congress: First African American, first female
usatoday.comMelanie Eversley, USA TODAY10:46 p.m. EDT July 13, 2016(Photo: Courtesy Enoch Pratt Free LIbrary system)An administrator so dedicated to bringing the library to the people that she kept...
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Robert J. Samuelson: Is the car culture crashing? - Note for a discussion, "E...
tulsaworld.comDaniel Presley walks along a row of classic cars at the Route 66 Patriotfest in Tulsa on May 28. MATT BARNARD/ Tulsa World fileBuy this photoPosted: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:00...
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Самое! гнусное интервью, что я читал в своей жизни
polka.dirty.ruvia MIK on FacebookСергей Караганов (личный советник Путина, декан московского элитного университете и ещё много чего) недавно дал интервью немецкому журналу Шпигель (интервью стало...
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Since the ’60s, imperfect progress on race - Note for a discussion, "E...
Washington PostMarchers at an anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington in Washington in 2013. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)By Robert J. Samuelson July 13 at 1:00 PM“When we start...
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Trump to Putin: What'd You Call Me?
Moscow TimesBy Michele A. BerdyMar. 25 2016 11:34Last edited 11:34Gage Skidmore / WikicommonsЯ́ркий: what Donald Trump isYevgeny Parfyonov Michele A. BerdyNow that we know a little bit about Barack...
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Оккупированный Киев глазами знаменитого немецкого фотографа Герберта Листа
via SA on Facebook cameralabs.org13 июля, 2016Подборка уникальных фотографий оккупированного Киева от всемирно известного фотографа Герберта Листа, служившего во время войны в Вермахте.Снимки выложены...
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Disconnect -- a way to characterize 2016?
image fromOur current slice of history is characterized as a time of disintegration -- "things fall apart/the center cannot hold."But I can't help but think: at a time of terror bombings, racial...
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Upper middle class has more than doubled since 1979 - Note for a discussion,...
usatoday.comBrooke Niemeyer, Credit.com12 p.m. EDT July 16, 2016(Photo: Thinkstock)The upper middle class in the United States has more than doubled since 1979, according to a new Urban Institute...
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I rejected my parents’ WASP values. Now I see we need them more than ever -...
washingtonpost.comThey represented a different, dying vision of the GOP.By Pamela Constable July 15 Pamela Constable is a member of the Post's foreign news staff. A former foreign correspondent based...
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How the prosperity gospel explains Donald Trump’s popularity with Christian...
washingtonpost.comimage fromLike Joel Osteen, Trump's brand is rooted in his own success.By Chris Lehmann July 15As the Republican convention kicks off next week, longtime observers of the...
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Robert Reich on the nation's divides -- note or a discussion, "E Pluribus...
image fromRobert Reich on Facebook 7/17:Excerpt:So the Republican convention begins at precisely the time when the nation is convulsed over widening divides – not only of race but also of religion and...
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‘Make America Great Again’ is not a policy. It’s an exercise in mass...
Donald Trump in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Jan. 19, 2015. (Randall Hill/Associated Press)By Robert J. Samuelson July 17 at 7:40 PM, Washington PostThe Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week...
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The Donald and the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Facebook comment, slightly edited)
Image from, with caption: States of Mitteleuropa (blue) and the larger cultural sphere (outlined) that in the late 19th century comprised the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland, as well as...
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Benjamin Franklin on German-Americans (Trump's ancestry)
dialoginternational.com; on Donald Trump's German roots, see.FEBRUARY 05, 2008Immigrants to America have always been feared and hated. Germans represent the largest group of immigrants to America,...
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Decline and fall: how American society unravelled - Note for a discussion, "E...
George Packer, The GuardianThirty years ago, the old deal that held US society together started to unwind, with social cohesion sacrificed to greed. Was it an inevitable process – or was it engineered...
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Пять ресурсов, необходимых для работы над курсовыми работами, академическими...
U.S. Embassy MoscowU.S. Embassy Moscow1 hr · Пять ресурсов, необходимых для работы над курсовыми работами, академическими эссе и диссертациями:JSTOR – наиболее известная в России база данных, в которой...
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Cold War Spies Sifted Through Used Soviet Toilet Paper In Search of Clues
Urvija Banerji, atlasobscura.comA British patrol car passes an armored East German vehicle on a street straddling East and West Berlin in 1961. The border runs between the two vehicles. (Photo:...
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Video of The Birth of a Nation (1915 film by D.W Griffith on youtube) -- Note...
Via RC and RM on FacebookA good-quality version film can be found at: youtube.comOn the film, see Wikipedia, which notes that"Under President Woodrow Wilson it was the first American motion picture to...
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Thank you, Father
image fromAs I look at the Trump kids' willing (?) media exposure (granted, they're grown-ups, except for the youngest offspring of thrice-married The Donald) I can't help but thank the Almighty that I...
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