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The Papal Bull “Inter Caetera: Doctrine of Discovery, 1493
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"The ‘Magical Thinking’ Behind The GOP Plan To Cut Programs For The Poor"
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Beginnings of the Vast Divide: Who Really won the War for Independence?
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Mysterious Christmas Eve Tragedy of 1945, family distraught over SIX missing...
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New Madrid Earthquake, December 1811 - April 1812
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Following the Money: Financing the Slave Trade
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Snowstorm socialism and the T
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Brad Collins Mayor, Morehead Ky: The Morehead News
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set up like bowlin' pins: Illinois King Ruiner leads in the race to the bottom
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Dutch solar road makes enough energy to power household
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Danny Schechter, “Your News Dissector.”
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JFK: Cold Warrior to Peace Maker.
In a 1966 New York Times feature article on the CIA, this statement by JFK appeared without further comment: “President Kennedy, as the enormity of the Bay of Pigs disaster came home to him, said to...
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