We have been hailing the Civil Rights Era as a grand and universal success for decades. Desegregation is an unquestionable good in the eyes of all good Americans. So, let’s take a
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My sons and I recently watched the 1986 movie Hoosiers. For some reason, they had never seen it, and as my oldest son is a big basketball fan, I figured he ought to
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This is a patriotic Italian song commemorating the Battle of the Piave River.
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Editor’s Note: The following is extracted from Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War, by John Buchan and Henry Newbolt (published 1922). On May 30, 1916, the Grand Fleet
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Khartoum Campaign, 1898, by Bennet Burleigh (published 1899). All spelling in the original. (Continued from Part 1) Before I deal with the second phase of
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from Khartoum Campaign, 1898, by Bennet Burleigh (published 1899). All spelling in the original. The supreme and greatest victory ever achieved by British arms in the
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Editor’s note: The following is extracted from The Heroic Record of the British Navy: A Short History of the Naval War 1914-1918, by Archibald Hurd and H.H. Bashford (published 1919). Situated off
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Editor’s note: Here follow Chapters 46 through 52 of My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War, by General Ben Viljoen (published 1902). All spelling in the original. (Continued from Part 7) CHAPTER XLVI
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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political
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