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Queen Elizabeth’s Savvy Response to a Sultan Who Demanded Homage 2
- Economics
- December 28, 2016
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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Café Posts Sign Banning ‘Nazi’ Trump Supporters 0
- Culture
- December 28, 2016
Via the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Hawaii eatery 8 1/2 Cafe, which primarily serves Italian food, is under fire after reportedly posting a yellow, handwritten sign on its front door that reads, “If you voted for Trump you cannot eat here! No Nazis.” Some customers – even those who didn’t vote for President-elect Donald Trump – have
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Hanging Out at the Park May Soon be a Crime 0
- Culture
- December 28, 2016
Have you ever noticed that it seems increasingly easy for good, upstanding citizens to be labeled as criminals? For example, your fruitcake making grandmother is guilty of a federal crime if she sells her Christmas specialty in “a serving size other than 1 ½ oz.” Your crunchy mama friend who makes her own unpasteurized eggnog
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Physician: American Children ‘Immersed in a Culture of Disrespect’0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
Let’s face it. Almost every child has likely had some type of meltdown in public, causing great embarrassment to both the child’s parent and to other witnesses in the vicinity. But while such disrespectful behavior is embarrassing at age two, it’s downright horrifying the older a child gets. Dr. Leonard Sax recently experienced one of
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Univ. Suspends Law Prof. For Wearing Blackface Costume 0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
The University of Oregon suspended a tenured professor for wearing blackface at an off-campus Halloween party, and now is considering additional punishment. The university admits the professor had no ill intent (reports suggest that she wore it in a strange attempt to honor a black physician, by dressing up as the title character in a black doctor’s
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How We’ll Remember George Michael 0
- Culture
- December 27, 2016
Over the Christmas holiday, 2016 claimed yet another pop icon: George Michael. He was 53. Late last night, I made the mistake of sharing a TMZ article on my public Facebook page that showed what George Michael looked like a few months before his death. He had packed on a lot of weight, so much
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