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Weekend of July 14-16, 2017

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"Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear."

A centuries-old song, iconic in Judaism, teaches a very contemporary business strategy all People of Faith would be wise to embrace

TSA: "No community, large or small, rural or urban, is immune to attacks of this kind."

Watch out, Gal Gadot --- there's another Jewish female superhero making her debut

How selfish, emotionally-needy parents destroy their kids --- only sometimes unknowingly

Although the agency is not bound by the panel's recommendation, it is likely to follow suit. Its decision is expected by late September

With this Part Pie (fruit juices oozing), Part Giant Pop-Tart (but don't escape), you've got a Showstopper dessert

• 1789, during the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside

• 1798, Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government

• 1853, Commodore Matthew Perry relayed to Japanese officials a letter from former President Fillmore, requesting trade relations

• 1881, outlaw William H. Bonney Jr., alias "Billy the Kid," was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, N.M.

• 1933, all German political parties, except the Nazi Party, were outlawed. ALSO: Cartoon character Popeye the Sailor made his movie debut in the Fleischer Studios animated short, "Popeye the Sailor"

• 1965, the American space probe Mariner 4 flew by Mars, sending back photographs of the planet

• 1966, eight student nurses were murdered by Richard Speck in a Chicago dormitory

• 1969, the United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation

• 1978, Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky was convicted of treasonous espionage and anti-Soviet agitation, and sentenced to 13 years at hard labor. (Sharansky was released in 1986.)

• 1999, Iranian hard-liners answered a week of pro-democracy rallies with one of their own, sending 100,000 people into the streets of Tehran. AND: Race-based school busing in Boston came to an end after 25 years. ALSO: Major league umpires voted to resign Sept. 2 and not work the final month of the season. (The strategy collapsed, with baseball owners accepting the resignations of 22 umpires.)

• 2000, a powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth

• 2001, in a boost for President Bush's hopes to build a defense against ballistic missile attack, the Pentagon scored a hit with an interceptor that soared into space from a tiny Pacific isle and destroyed its target, a mock nuclear warhead

• 2003, Iraq's new governing council, in its first full day on the job, voted to send a delegation to the U.N. Security Council and assert its right to represent Baghdad on the world stage

• 2005, U.S. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, ending a two-day stay in the hospital, pledged to continue working as long as his health permitted. (Rehnquist died in September 2005.)

• 2007, North Korea told the United States it had shut down its nuclear reactor, hours after a ship cruised into port loaded with oil promised in return for the country's pledge to disarm. ALSO: Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his country would suspend its participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, a Cold War agreement that limited deployment of heavy weaponry

• 2009, within months after repaying bailout money supplied by the U.S. government, New York banking giant Goldman Sachs reported a profit of $3.44 billion for the first quarter of the year. JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup also reported big profits

• 2013, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking out against Iran's nuclear program, called the country's new president, Hassan Rouhani, "a wolf in sheep's clothing." He predicted -- correctly -- Rouhani would "smile and build a bomb."

• 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest photographs and most detailed measurements they've ever seen of the dwarf planet

• 2016, terror struck Bastille Day celebrations in the French Riviera city of Nice (nees) as a large truck plowed into a festive crowd, killing 86 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State extremists; the driver was shot dead by police

Dave Weinbaum: The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings

Cheryl K. Chumley: Mental health sick days a sign of America's wussification

David Limbaugh: Retaining Our Principles Includes Keeping Our Eyes on the Big Ball

Mona Charen: The 16 Things You Must Believe If the 'Witch Hunt' Accusation Is True

Josh Rogin: National security figures launch project to counter Russian mischief

Dan Balz: Foreign leaders see nation's governors as potential allies in trade talks with Trump

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