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  • Queen Elizabeth’s Savvy Response to a Sultan Who Demanded Homage

    Queen Elizabeth’s Savvy Response to a Sultan Who Demanded Homage2

    In late September 1579, Queen Elizabeth received a satin bag that contained a parchment sprinkled with gold dust. It was a message from Murad III, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, composed in Arabic script. (A second letter written in Latin was also presented to the queen.) It was the first communication between an English monarch

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  • Queen Elizabeth’s 21st Birthday Celebration Is a Model for Today’s Youth

    Queen Elizabeth’s 21st Birthday Celebration Is a Model for Today’s Youth3

    The most memorable speech that Queen Elizabeth II ever gave was five years before her coronation. It was delivered in 1947 on a radio broadcast from South Africa, where she was on a royal tour with her parents and her sister. The occasion was her 21st birthday. Nowadays a 21st birthday is a milestone marking

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  • Queen Elizabeth, Prince Louis, and the Legacy We Leave

    Queen Elizabeth, Prince Louis, and the Legacy We Leave4

    The Platinum Jubilee of Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II was celebrated with Trooping the Colour on June 2, leaving many picture-perfect moments in its wake. The passing parade provided one Kodak moment. Smiling senior members of the royal family waving from the balcony of Buckingham Palace provided another. But the audience choice award for the

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  • Quebec’s Euthanasia Program is Accelerating Past Belgium’s

    Quebec’s Euthanasia Program is Accelerating Past Belgium’s0

    The law that legalized euthanasia in Quebec – under the euphemism “medical aid in dying” – came into effect exactly two years ago, on December 10, 2015. Many promises preceded its intrusion into our health system: that this would be an exceptional measure for exceptional cases, that there would be safeguards to prevent abuse, and

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  • Quashing H.R. 1 is Not Enough

    Quashing H.R. 1 is Not Enough0

    Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has upset the plans of his party leaders to jam though hyper-partisan legislation and tip the electoral balance in favor of Democrats for all future elections. Manchin, a secretary of state before he was elected governor, is refusing to end the filibuster, or to vote for H.R. 1, the cynically named

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  • Quality Education is Not Rocket Science

    Quality Education is Not Rocket Science0

    • March 19, 2014

    Every week it seems I receive three or four letters from people who are establishing new schools or reforming old ones. These letters are most encouraging, and all of the writers, without exception, are dedicated to restoring what is called a “classical” education. Sometimes that implies the study of the true classics, the literature of ancient

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