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Hitler's food taster breaks her silence after 68 years
APRIL 8, 2013 8:39PM
Topics: europe, world war ii, third reich, nazis, germany, history
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Buddy Bolden: The Forgotten King of Jazz
MARCH 7, 2013 11:16AM
Topics: buddy bolden, jazz, new orleans, history, music
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A lively, lovely necropolis
NOVEMBER 1, 2012 2:19PM
Topics: history, sculpture, architecture, art, pere lachaise, cemeteries, halloween, all saints day, toussaint, photography, travel, france, paris, gericault, art nouveau, jim morrison, angels
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Raising the Black Flag: US Embassy Attacks
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 7:14PM
Topics: cairo, history, vexillology, flag, flags, muslims, islam, stevens, egypt, libya, ambassador, embassy, black flag
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- 3293 Views
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Are all lives equal?
AUGUST 10, 2012 11:47AM
Topics: animals, belief/religion, ethics, blaise pascal, blaise pascal invented the calculator yet this is what amazes me most about him, cats, life, death, death penalty, occult, witchcraft, history
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- 8 Comments
Right wing takes aim at public education
JULY 23, 2012 10:32AM
Topics: politics, education, public schools, charter schools, texas board of education, right wing, history, massachusetts education reform act, a nation at risk, william weld, bi-partisanship, curriculum frameworks, teachers unions, tenure, mandatory testing, class size, republican party, rick scott, scott walker, president obama, mitt romney, diane ravitch, george h.w. bush, bill clinton, school vouchers, school choice, evolution, creationism, bible-based math, religious right, christian fundamentalism, outcomes based education, john birch society, john adams, horace mann, civil war, confederates, jim crow, ku klux klan, mccarthyism, education reform, tax cuts, national governors association, federal student loans, privitization
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Patron Saints of Random Things
JULY 20, 2012 1:43PM
Topics: history, humor, religion, catholicism
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- 2359 Views
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Berlin's Adequate "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe"
JULY 18, 2012 2:31AM
Topics: news, rastatt, richard brody, the new yorker, memorialization, memorials, shoah, the holocaust, berlin, history, jewish history, memorial to the murdered jews of europe, museum, germany, memory
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Munich, 1972: Black September had neo-Nazi helpers
JUNE 18, 2012 7:28AM
Topics: munich, germany, history, olympic games, terrorism, palestine, israel, plo
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- 5039 Views
- 21 Comments
A Neglected War
JUNE 18, 2012 9:45AM
Topics: war of 1812, canada, britain, united states, history
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The Real American Heiresses of "Downton Abbey"
MAY 23, 2012 2:56PM
Topics: julian fellows, series, popular series, masterpiece theater, book talk, author talk, public library, gail maccoll, carol wallace, history, book, how to marry an english lord, downton abbey
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- 5944 Views
- 33 Comments
Why are Women Dumb?
APRIL 25, 2012 6:15AM
Topics: open+call, economy, belief/religion, history, science, politics, feminism, war on women
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- 8973 Views
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Titanic - James Cameron's subversive masterpiece
APRIL 24, 2012 9:50AM
Topics: shipwrecks, history, popular culture, mythology, subversion, james cameron, film, titanic
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- 3593 Views
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Why I don't care if today's kids know about the Titanic...
APRIL 16, 2012 4:49PM
Topics: titanic, superman, politics, news commentary, man of steel, history, helen keller, essays, education, dr. martin luther king jr
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- 3398 Views
- 35 Comments
Bows, Arrows, and Historic Underwear
APRIL 16, 2012 9:23AM
Topics: fun stuff, battle reenactment, steampunk, costumes, tourism, jewelry, fashion, hunger games, arrows, bows, medieval food, medieval wedding, medieval music, medieval times, middle ages, reconstitution, reenactment, history, cats, travel, france, pontoise, marche de l'histoire
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- 7216 Views
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Trouble in Sanford! Negroes Plot Revenge for Trayvon Martin!
APRIL 6, 2012 2:29PM
Topics: trayvon martin, media, race, history, civil rights, law, racism, culture
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- 2510 Views
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April 2, 1917: When America Joined the World
APRIL 2, 2012 8:49AM
Topics: world war i, history
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- 10091 Views
- 28 Comments
NEWS FLASH: New York Educators Reject Dinosaurs
MARCH 27, 2012 1:08AM
Topics: education, textbooks, state testing, history, science, math, test items, exclusions
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- 6609 Views
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Me and Rosa Parks on the Ellis Island Ferry
FEBRUARY 16, 2012 8:15AM
Topics: family, african-american history month, history, rosa parks
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- 2282 Views
- 47 Comments
Synthetica
JANUARY 5, 2012 8:02AM
Topics: silence, fashion, design, empathic projection, love, sex, sythetic sex, alone, waiting, ficional need, histories, certitude, uncertain rekoning, visual poetry, decay, environment, victim, human surrogates, history, projection, pathos, mannequins, watching, watchers, sculpture, synthetic need
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