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As history buffs around the world will know, 2017 marks the one hundredth anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I. In recognition of this anniversary, my state’s history center is currently sponsoring an exhibit on the lead-up to the war, America’s part in it, and the aftermath. I had the fun of exploring this
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Who is the most generous person in the world today? Ask folks in the West, and the most popular answer would probably be Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. For good reason, too. According to Business Insider’s 2015 ranking of the 20 most generous people in the world, Gates comes in first, with $27 billion
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One of the best pieces of educational advice I’ve heard in recent months didn’t come from a book or a talk about education. It came from a film about wine. This past week I watched A Year in Burgundy on Netflix. I highly recommend this documentary not only for the information it provides on the winemaking process,
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It has been a rough week in the Canadian parliament, to put it lightly. Last Friday, the Trudeau Government invited 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian migrant to Canada, to hear Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to Parliament. Speaker Anthony Rota introduced Hunka as a “Ukrainian-Canadian veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian
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On Feb. 8, the popular YouTuber Viva Frei came across a woman in downtown Ottawa with a large picture of her son taped to her car. She didn’t give her name, but she was eager to share her story. “This is my son Jake,” she said, pointing to the picture. “He was 34 years old, he died
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The big rigs are hitting the road as I write these words. A thousand trucks departed from California late in February on their way to Washington, D.C., The Daily Mail reports. Others from around the country will join that convoy. If their schedule goes as planned, they’ll arrive in the
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