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By Caroline Glick

For the Europeans and the American left, the term "settlement" is a password that opens Pandora’s Box of anti-Semitism. Pompeo took their buzzword away

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Does ginger really relieve nausea? Does turkey really make you sleepy?

Passionate Parents
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Social media feeds this never-ending, and debilitating, cycle. Parents need to take back control

Must Know Info
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Here are five strategies for maneuvering what's become the ultimate game of "discount chicken"

Ess, Ess / Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
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Here's how to turn your grilled cheese sandwich into an umami bomb (YUM!)

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On this day in . . .

• 1667, a deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people

• 1703, the Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.

• 1759, disastrous earthquake hits Mediterranean, Beirut and Damascus completely destroyed, 30,000-40,000 dead

• 1783, following the American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris

• 1795, Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and is exiled to Russia

• 1839, a cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster

• 1867, Alfred Nobel -- as in the Peace Prize -- patents dynamite

• 1874, the United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873

• 1947, the "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios

• 1950, the People's Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces

• 1952, Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history

• 1963, President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery

• 1970, in Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt

• 1999, 5 year-old Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida. (Elian was one of three survivors from a boat carrying 14 Cubans that had sunk two days earlier in the Atlantic Ocean; his rescue set off an international custody battle between relatives in Miami and Elian's father that eventually resulted in Elian being returned to Cuba.)

• 2002, President George W. Bush signed legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security, and appointed Tom Ridge to be its chief

• 2008, President-elect Barack Obama said economic recovery efforts would trump deficit concerns after he took office in January; at the same time, Obama pledged a "page-by-page, line-by-line" budget review to root out unneeded spending. ALSO: Former NFL quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty to a Virginia dogfighting charge, receiving a three-year suspended sentence

• 2011, the United States launched an Atlas V rocket to look for life on Mars. Aboard was the rover Curiosity, which would explore the planet, searching for signs of life

• 2012, military officials in Beijing announced the first successful landing of a Chinese fighter jet on the deck of the Liaoning, the first aircraft carrier built in China

• 2014, attorneys for Michael Brown's family vowed to push for federal charges against the Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed the unarmed 18-year-old, a day after a grand jury declined to indict Darren Wilson, who insisted in an interview with ABC News that he could not have done anything differently in the confrontation with Brown. (The Justice Department later declined to prosecute Wilson.) President Barack Obama sharply rebuked protesters for racially charged violence in Ferguson, saying there was no excuse for burning buildings, torching cars and destroying other property

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