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  • 10 Facts on Motherhood and Children in the Middle Ages

    10 Facts on Motherhood and Children in the Middle Ages0

    Jeffrey L. Singman is a historian who writes about everyday in life in history. Over the weekend, I finally got to cracking his book The Middle Ages: Everyday Life in Medieval Europe. The book offers a great glimpse into life in the Middle Ages from the perspective of people who weren’t kings, popes, bishops, lords

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  • When Democrats Were Opposed to a Centralized, Bureaucratic Education System

    When Democrats Were Opposed to a Centralized, Bureaucratic Education System1

    Today’s Democratic Party in America is considered the foremost advocate of a centralized, bureaucratic, and high-spending public education system. But in 19th-century Massachusetts, where our current public education system originated, the opposite was the case. It was the Democratic Party that was the major opponent of the spread of the government’s tentacles over education. This

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  • What U.S. Students Miss by Not Learning Latin

    What U.S. Students Miss by Not Learning Latin0

    Although it’s not primetime news in the U.S., a 15 year-old student from Athens, Georgia, recently made international waves when he became the first American to win the Certamen Ovidianum Latin competition in Italy. Josiah Meadows took home $1,000 in cash and other prizes for translating a passage from Ovid and then writing an essay

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  • What does Liquid Nitrogen do to Your Face?

    What does Liquid Nitrogen do to Your Face?0

    What do you do when it’s Friday afternoon and you’ve ran out of ideas to write about? You go to Youtube!  Sure enough, after scrolling through a few dozen videos I was able to find something that looked cool enough to share with Intellectual Takeout readers.  Grant Thompson (aka “The King of Random”) makes weekly videos that

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  • US Has History of Banning Immigrants with Radical Ideas

    US Has History of Banning Immigrants with Radical Ideas0

    The Washington Post blasted Donald Trump this week over his proposal to stem the flow of immigrants from nations associated with terrorism.   Trump’s radical speech, the news writers said, was  “laden with falsehoods and exaggeration.” Trump was fiery and combative in contrast to his opponent Hillary Clinton, who was “cool and collected.”  Every person the Post

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  • This Teen Earned Enough to Pay for College by Selling Newspapers

    This Teen Earned Enough to Pay for College by Selling Newspapers0

    Most children these days expect their parents to pay for their college—either through savings or through co-signing on loans. But not Kevuntez King of Memphis, Tennessee, who was raised by his single mother. As People Magazine reports: “Every Sunday for the past four years, Kevuntez King woke up at 3:45am to stand on a Memphis,

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