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Inspired Living
Finding true nobility in the face of injustice
Reality Check
Britain has been one election away from having an antisemitic prime minister backed by antisemitic voters. If current trends in the Democratic Party continue, in the not-so-distant future, the United States might be in the same position
Life Hacks
Optimize your internet connection. Don't settle for buffering. (INCL. diagrams)
It Could Haappen Again
"The trauma is something I don't think we will ever heal from."
Wellness
The best advice isn't exciting. But there's a reason it has stuck around
Wealth Strategies
Despite the popularity of using dividend yields to choose stocks for their retirement portfolios, there's a better indicator that investors should be looking at
Ess, Ess/
This dietetic dish -- with a a uniquely buttery taste and a synergistic crust combination of pecans and Cajun spices -- will delight even non-fish eaters
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Chip Bok
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1777, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the capital of the United States, for one day
• 1779, John Adams was named by Congress to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain
• 1821, Mexico gains its independence from Spain
• 1822, Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta stone
• 1825, the Stockton and Darlington Railway opens, and begins operation of the world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains. The north-eastern England route was 26 miles (40 km) long
• 1854, the steamship SS Arctic sinks with 300 people on board. This marks the first great disaster in the Atlantic Ocean
• 1903, the Wreck of the Old 97, a train crash made famous by the song of the same name
• 1905, the physics journal Annalen der Physik published Albert Einstein's paper "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc2
• 1908, the first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Piquette Plant in Detroit
• 1922, King Constantine I of Greece abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, King George II
• 1928, the Republic of China is recognized by the United States
• 1938, ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow
• 1939, during World War II: Warsaw, Poland, surrendered after weeks of resistance to invading forces from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II
• 1940, during World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy
• 1941, the SS Patrick Henry is launched becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships
• 1956, USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed
• 1964, the Warren Commission releases its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, assassinated President John F. Kennedy
• 1977, the 300 metre tall CKVR-TV transmission tower in Barrie, Ontario, Canada is hit by a light aircraft in a fog, causing it to collapse. All aboard the aircraft are killed
• 1979, the United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency
• 1994, more than 350 Republican congressional candidates gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to sign the "Contract with America," a 10-point platform they pledged to enact if voters sent a GOP majority to the House
• 1995, American government unveils the first of its redesigned bank notes with the $100 bill featuring a larger portrait of Benjamin Franklin slightly off-center
• 2001, President George W. Bush asked the nation's governors to post National Guard troops at airports as a first step toward federal control of airline security.
• 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they would join forces to oppose nuclear proliferation in Iran and North Korea
• 2016, the United States provided another $364 million in humanitarian aid to Syrians as their nation’s civil war appeared to be getting worse. ALSO: Scientists announced the first baby born from a controversial new technique that combined DNA from three people --- the mother, the father and an egg donor. (The goal was to prevent the child from inheriting a fatal genetic disease from his mother.)
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Niall Ferguson: Borders are back and a new game looms
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News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: The New Power Nap | Unclear on the Concept
Kathleen Parker 25 years later, we still don't know what happened to Dail Dinwiddie
Garrison Keillor: The gentle people shall prevail
• Twitter's testing a 280-character limit for tweets
(INCL. VIDEO) Kareem Fahim & Tamer El-Ghobashy: Kurdish bid for independence from Iraq emerges as regional flash point
John Stossel: Disabled by Government
Richard A. Epstein: Farewell To Title IX's Kangaroo Courts
Michelle Malkin: NFL Pigskins at the Public Trough
Ben Shapiro: The Strategy of Going Too Far
L. Brent Bozell III: That burning smell of patriotism
Alicia Colon: Are All Millionaire Athletes Really That Dense?
Joseph Curl : Obama hauls in millions from Wall Street, media don't say a word
Ed Rogers: For congressional Republicans, it's tax reform or die
Jonah Goldberg: Does our society still support the right to be wrong?
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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