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75% of the world’s most popular websites track users
Elizabeth Weise, USATODAY7:28 p.m. EDT August 16, 2016(Photo: Getty Images)SAN FRANCISCO— You’re not paranoid, you really are being followed more online.A study that looked at web tracking over the...
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ЖАЛЬ, ЧТО ВАС НЕ БЫЛО С НАМИ. ВАСИЛИЙ АКСЕНОВ Документалистика
Found on the Web: Important film on Russian culture at, focusing on writer Vasilyi Aksenov (Aksyonov, depending on how you wish to transliterate the Russian alphabet into English) and 1960s Russian...
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Bill vs. Hillary -- Note for a non-memoir ... (from Facebook)
John Brown As I reach a certain age I remember a WH "cultural diplomacy" conference https://www.c-span.org/video/... at the end of the Clinton administration at which I had the privilege to be a...
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Daniel Boone’s Legend Defines the American Mystique; Note for a Discussion,...
Alix Hawley, ocalopublicsquare.orgimage from articleWhat It Means to Be American I’m not American. My childhood social studies curriculum covered Canada’s geography and indigenous peoples, in French...
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Don't know much about history ... but I do know that I love you
image fromThe below from yours truly's two Facebook entries, preceded by the lyrics of that great all-American song, "Don't Know Much about History""Wonderful World"Don't know much about historyDon't...
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Why Did We Stop Teaching Political History?
By FREDRIK LOGEVALL and KENNETH OSGOOD AUG. 29, 2016, New York Times[JB note: Interesting that the brilliant Professor Osgood, much of whose academic research has been devoted to exposing the CIA/RFE's...
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The Birth of Race-Based Slavery
From SlateBy the 17th century, America’s slave economy had eliminated the obstacle of morality.By Peter H. WoodExcerpted from Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America by Peter H. Wood. Published...
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Half a million young Italians are about to receive free money to stay away...
Rick Noack, Washington PostImage from article, with caption: Italian police stand guard at a checkpoint in Conciliazione Street, next to St. Peter's Square, in Rome in Nov. 17, 2015.As Europe struggles...
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American Ambassador to Russia Quotes Stalin
Press Release, "Remarks by Ambassador John F. Tefft at the opening ceremony of the VI International Forum “To the Glory of Fleet and Motherland” in Arkhangelsk," moscow.usembassy.govimage (not from...
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In Putin’s Russia, The Neo-Stalinist Tipping Point
Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast; see also John Brown, "American Ambassador to Russia Quotes Stalin," Notes and EssaysPutin’s appointment of a Stalin-apologist ideologue as education minister is, for many...
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Eton boys in Russia -- From Mark Teeter
Facebook entry from a premier commentator -- Mark Teeter - on Russia today (he actually lives there, in Moscow; how many "Western commentators" dare do to so, or speak Russian as well as he does) -...
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The arts community embraced Obama — but he never truly embraced the arts
By Philip Kennicott September 2, Washington Post; see also. In February 2014, the White House released a photograph of President Obama standing alone in the Oval Office, contemplating two paintings by...
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Review of:The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923
image fromBook Review: Geoffrey Roberts, The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923By Robert Gerwarth, irishtimes.com; via MvH on FacebookThe proposition that the two world wars...
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The 15 best cheerleading squads in the NFL - Note for a discussion, "E...
The 15 best cheerleading squads in the NFL - Washington TimesImage from entry, with caption: 12. WASHINGTON REDSKINS CHEERLEADERS - The Washington Redskins cheerleaders perform before an NFL preseason...
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The Ghosts of the Great War
John Daniel Davidson, "The Ghosts of the Great War," lareviewofbooks.org (May 26, 2014)image from articleMOST AMERICANS think World War I was a botched and tragic conflict between the decrepit empires...
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The stunning geographic divide in American creativity - Note for a...
By Christopher Ingraham,September 5, Washington Post Thomas Hawk/Flickr; uncaptioned image from articleUrbanist Richard Florida popularized the term "creative class," describing the millions of workers...
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Hawaii becomes first state to enact federal gun-owner database -- Note for a...
Daniel Uria, Hawaii [JB - President Obama's home state] becomes first state to enact federal gun-owner database, upi.comHawaii Governor David Ige, seen here on June 17, signed a law Friday mandating...
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Guns in the USA
image fromJustin Worland, "Here’s Where You’re Most Likely to Own a Gun in the U.S.," time.com (June 15, 2015)Americans love their guns. U.S. citizens own more than 270 million of them, nearly 9 for...
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Calif. university latest to establish 'black-only' housing - Note for a...
foxnews.comimage fromA California university is the latest public school of higher education to establish “black-only” co-ed housing in response to demands from African-American students seeking refuge...
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Chicago hits 500 homicides for 2016 after deadly Labor Day weekend - Note for...
Aamer Madhani, USA Today; see also.Image from, with caption: A 43-year-old man was shot to death and a 35-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the left knee outside Express Grill near South Halsted...
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