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Wandering Jews
In the early 1900s, nearly 1 million of the world's estimated 15 million Jews were still living across the Middle East and North Africa. In some countries, only dozens remain
Declassified
McMaster and Flynn are very different in their assessment of America's relationship with Islam and how this influences the long war on jhad. Will the president's new national security adviser last?
War on Jihad
ISIS hails "new source of horror" with successful attacks on troops. Could cities be next?
Coupling
Even if you hit a roadblock in your relationship, these tips will tell you if you're on the right track
Heads-Up
Research suggest that these illnesses may actually cause one another
Life Hacks
Never say die
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
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[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1753, February 17 is followed by March 1, as Sweden moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar
• 1801, an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives
• 1819, the United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise, between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories
• 1867, the first ship passes through the Suez Canal
• 1871, the victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War
• 1879, Woolworth, the first chain store, opened in Utica, N.Y.
• 1913, The Armory Show opens at New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th Century
• 1924, in Miami, Florida, Johnny Weissmuller sets a new world record in the 100-yard freestyle swimming competition with a time of 52-2/5 seconds
• 1933, the Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States
• 1936, the world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics
• 1947, the Voice of America begins to transmit radio broadcasts into the Soviet Union
• 1959, the Daytona 500 was run for the first time. Lee Petty won the race
• 1964, in Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population. Wesberry and the Court's later "one person, one vote" decisions had an extraordinary impact on the makeup of the House, on the content of public policy, and on electoral politics in general. However, it is quite possible to draw any district lines in accord with the "one person, one vote" rule and, at the same time, to gerrymander them
• 1965, the Ranger 8 probe launches on it's mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. The "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing
• 1972, President Richard M. Nixon departed on his historic trip to China
• 1974, Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter
• 1979, the Sino-Vietnamese War begins
• 1980, in one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of collegians and second-tier professional players, defeated the defending champion Soviet team, regarded as the world's finest, 4-3 at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y.
• 1992 , a court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison
• 1993, the U.N. Security Council voted to form an international war crimes tribunal to try those accused of offenses during ethnic fighting in the former Yugoslavia
• 1996, in Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match
• 2000, a House panel said in a report that the program to inoculate all 2.4 million American military personnel against anthrax was based on "a paucity of science" and should be suspended; the Pentagon defended the program and vowed to continue the inoculations
• 2001, former Nation of Islam official Khalid Abdul Muhammad, known for his harsh rhetoric about Jews and whites, died at a hospital in Marietta, Ga., at age 53
• 2007, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Iran had ignored a Security Council ultimatum to freeze uranium enrichment, and instead had expanded its program by setting up hundreds of centrifuges
• 2009, President Barack Obama signed a mammoth, $787 billion economic stimulus package into law in Denver; he also approved adding some 17,000 U.S. troops for the war in Afghanistan
• 2011, a defiant Moammar Gadhafi vowed to fight to his "last drop of blood" and roared at supporters to strike back against Libyan protesters to defend his embattled regime
• 2016, President Barack Obama sent lawmakers an official $1.9 billion request to combat the spread of the Zika (ZEE'-kuh) virus in Latin America and the U.S. (Congress passed a $1.1 billion package in Sept. 2016.)
Andrew Malcolm: George H.W. Deux? Understanding what makes Trump tick
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Not, again!
• Three of D.C.'s most visited monuments damaged with graffiti over holiday weekend
Byron York NATO to US: Yessir, Mr. Trump
Rich Lowry: Actually, Sweden is having big trouble with Mideast refugees
L. Brent Bozell III: Planned Parenthood's Pandering Press
David Shribman: METAPHORS GONE WILD! Trump has overhauled the parties' identities and prompted a flood of figures of speech
John Stossel: What I know first-hand about 'fake news'
Joseph Curl: Media responds to Trump's 'fake news' charge --- by pumping out fake news!
Abby Ohlheiser: The 96 hours that brought down Milo Yiannopoulos
Yonason Goldson: Enough trying to get along, California. It's time to go our separate ways
Greg Jaffe: Trump's new national security adviser: A soldier who can say 'No sir
Michelle Malkin: Fighting for the Falsely Accused
Walter Williams: There's Nothing Free
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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