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  • 1899 Insurance Co.: No Insurance for ‘Intemperate or Immoral’ People

    1899 Insurance Co.: No Insurance for ‘Intemperate or Immoral’ People0

    If you’re looking for an illustration as to how much we’ve changed in the last 100 or so years, take a look at this list of instructions for medical examiners from the Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York. The document, published in 1899, is basically a dull litany of things medical examiners should do

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  • 1828 Yale Report Warned about Dumbed-Down Standards

    1828 Yale Report Warned about Dumbed-Down Standards1

    • June 14, 2016

    This might be one of those “nothing new under the sun moments.” “The Yale Report of 1828” is one of the most famous educational documents in American history. At the time, Yale, like other colleges, was being called upon to diversify their curriculum and include more specialization. The Report reaffirmed Yale’s commitment to a broad

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  • 1824: The Strangest Presidential Election Yet

    1824: The Strangest Presidential Election Yet0

    The Era of Good Feelings. Not exactly the best descriptor for our own times is it? Spanning from the mid-1810s through the end of President James Monroe’s second term in 1824, the Era of Good Feelings was a time in which the Democratic-Republican Party enjoyed practically unopposed control of the United States following the Federalist Party’s

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  • 18 Ways Lord of Rings is Christian Allegory

    18 Ways Lord of Rings is Christian Allegory1

    Tolkien described The Lord of the Rings as “a fundamentally religious and Catholic work.” Is it possible to summarize this dimension of Tolkien’s magnum opus in fewer than 600 words? You better believe it!  The connections between The Lord of the Rings and Christianity are numerous. There is a connection symbolically between the One Ring and Original Sin and, therefore, between Mount Doom and Golgotha.

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  • 18 Earth Day Predictions That Were Spectacularly Wrong

    18 Earth Day Predictions That Were Spectacularly Wrong0

    Yesterday (Sunday, April 22) was Earth Day 2018 and time for my annual Earth Day post….. In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled “Earth Day, Then and Now” to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article, Bailey

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  • 18 Domestic Cuts Trump is Proposing in New Budget

    18 Domestic Cuts Trump is Proposing in New Budget0

    The White House released President Donald Trump’s first budget today. In the opening message, the president says, “Our Budget Blueprint insists on $54 billion in reductions to non-defense programs. We are going to do more with less, and make the government lean and accountable to the people.” I would rather that the government do less with a

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