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Inspired Living
Lesson learned from a real-life fish story
This World
The late president is often demonized, with talk recently of having a monument to his memory, in which he's buried, removed. As Paul Harvey might have said: "And now the rest of the story..."
Prevent A Divorce!
Are you showing your spouse all 4?
Wellness
Doing so may help cancer patients and others at risk. So why is the idea controversial? Life Hacks
It's not enough to get on the Do Not Call list Ever get a phone call from a number that looks suspiciously like your own? (INCL. video) Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat
The return of the former president of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, whose members include -- and have included -- respected gourmets like Julia Child
Today: Break the Fast --- sweet and savory, ready to serve
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Chip Bok
• Michael Ramirez BONUS!
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1650, Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters -- the first historically documented dating service -- in Threadneedle Street, London
• 1789, the U.S. War Department established a regular army with a strength of several hundred men. ALSO: The first U.S. Congress adjourns
• 1829, London's reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard, went on duty
• 1916, John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire
• 1918, Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line during World War I
• 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders signed the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, by allowing Nazi annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
• 1943, U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice aboard the Royal Navy battleship HMS Nelson off Malta
• 1954, Major League Baseball: Willie Mays of the then New York Giants makes "The Catch" at The Polo Grounds in Game 1 of the World Series
• 1960, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disorders a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts
• 1963, the second session of Second Vatican Council opened in Rome
• 1966, the Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced
• 1972, Sino-Japanese relations: Japan establishes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the Republic of China
• 1982, Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals die (To date, the case remains unsolved.)
• 1986, the Soviet Union released Nicholas Daniloff, an American journalist confined in Moscow on spying charges
• 1988, NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission. It marks America's first return to manned space flight following the Challenger disaster
• 1995, the United States Navy disbands Fighter Squadron #84 (VF-84), the celebrated Jolly Rogers
• 1996, the organization that supervised Bosnia's first postwar elections officially certified the results -- with victories by nationalist parties and the country's Muslim president, Alija Izetbegovic. ALSO: The Nintendo 64 video game system known as the first 'true' 64-bit system, hit North American shelves. That first day, Nintendo sold 500,000 systems, with the Mario64 game selling the same with it
• 2001, President Bush condemned Afghanistan's Taliban rulers for harboring Osama bin Laden and his followers as the United States pressed its military and diplomatic campaign against terror
• 2004, a video surfaced showing Kenneth Bigley, a British civil engineer held by practitioners of that "religion of peace", pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage. (Bigley was later beheaded)
• 2005, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from 85 days of federal detention after agreeing to testify in a criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity
• 2008, following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history
• 2009, New York City terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazi pleaded not guilty to conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction in what authorities said was a planned attack on commuter trains. (Zazi later pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and supporting al-Qaida.) ALSO: Former Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was sentenced in New York to more than 24 years in prison for his guilty plea to fraud charges and another four years and four months in prison for his conviction at trial for breaking campaign finance laws
• 2013, NASA's newest delivery service, Orbital Sciences Corp.'s unmanned cargo spacecraft Cygnus, made its first-ever shipment to the International Space Station. ALSO: Some four dozen people were shot to death at an agricultural college in Gujba, Nigeria, in an attack blamed on Boko Haram. A car bomb tore through a market in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing at least 41 people. AND: On the last day of the season, Miami's Henderson Alvarez pitched one of baseball's most bizarre no-hitters. Alvarez celebrated in the on-deck circle when the Marlins scored on a two-out wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Detroit Tigers 1-0.
[ I N S I G H T ]
Wesley Pruden: The crass politics of windy compassion
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: Inexplicable
L. Brent Bozell III Bring on transgender nudity and demonize the military?
Travis M. Andrews: Megyn Kelly is striking out with her celebrity guests
Greg Crosby: Is Somebody Up There Not Happy With Us?
• Librarian rejects Melania Trump's gift of Dr. Seuss books
• Officials target 'sanctuary cities' in latest round of alien arrests
• He thought he had a lung tumor. It was a tiny toy traffic cone he inhaled 40 years ago
Cheryl K. Chumley: Professors propose 'privileged identity' training for traveling whites
Rich Lowry: The GOP establishment still can't figure out how to work with Trump
Suzanne Fields: Welcome to the Divided States of America
Mona Charen: Football and Racial Fault Lines
David Limbaugh: Unfair Charges of Systemic Racism
Bruce Bialosky: America's Crisis with Opioids: Confronting the Crisis
Jonah Goldberg: The 'Blade Runner' curse and the overestimation of corporate might
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
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