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  • 5 Facts about Washington’s Birthday0

    Today is the U.S. federal holiday known as Washington’s Birthday (not “Presidents Day-see item #1). In honor of George Washington’s birthday, here are 5 things you should know about the day set aside for our America’s premier founding father. 1. Although some state and local governments and private businesses refer to today as President’s Day,

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  • 5 Facts About the Kim Dynasty of North Korea

    5 Facts About the Kim Dynasty of North Korea0

    President Trump began a historic summit with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Here are five facts you should know about the Kim family, the secretive autocratic regime that has ruled North Korea for more than sixty years. (Note: To avoid confusion, I’ve labeled each of the Kim dictators with a numeric designation: Kim

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  • 5 Facts about the Alt-Right

    5 Facts about the Alt-Right0

    Rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia this weekend ended in violence and domestic terrorism, as white nationalist groups clashed with counter-protestors. The Unite the Right rally was intended, as co-promoter Matthew Heimbach explains, to unite the alt-right around the “14 words”: “We must secure the existence of our people and the future for white children’—as our primary motivating

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  • 5 Facts about Karl Marx

    5 Facts about Karl Marx0

    This Saturday is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, the most destructively influential writer on economics in world history. Here are five facts should know about the German philosopher and co-author of The Communist Manifesto: 1. As a student at the University of Bonn, Marx was introduced to the philosophy of the late

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  • 5 Facts about Frederick Douglass

    5 Facts about Frederick Douglass0

    Here are five facts about Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), writer, orator, statesman, abolitionist:and one of America’s greatest champions of individual liberty: 1. Douglas was born into slavery in Maryland circa 1818. (Like many slaves, he never knew his actual date of birth and so chose February 14 as his birthday.) He was given the name Frederick

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  • 5 Facts about Billy Graham (1918–2018)

    5 Facts about Billy Graham (1918–2018)0

    The Rev. Billy Graham died February 21st, 2018 at the age of 99. Here are five facts you should know about the man who became the world’s most famous Protestant evangelist. 1. In 1934 at the age of 16, Graham was turned down for membership in a local youth group because he was “too worldly.”

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