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How many schools require uniforms?

The Question: How many schools have adopted uniforms or standardized dress? The Answer: School officials have been tightening security measures…

Women's Suffrage: The Negro's Hour

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler That Adjective Male 1866Negro Suffrage as a Political NecessityThe Negro's HourThe elections of 1866 resulted in an overwhelming victory…

Bermuda Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Bermuda Index: Historical Highlights Government and Political Conditions Economy Foreign Relations and U.S.-Bermudian Relations HISTORICAL…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Beclouded

by EmilyDickinsonAutumnThe HemlockBeclouded Beclouded The sky is low, the clouds are mean, A travelling flake of snow Across a barn or through a rut Debates if it will go. A narrow wind…

John Murtha, 2005 News

Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, stunned member of Congress and sparked the ire of the Bush administration in November, when he called for an immediate withdrawal of troops from…

Our Top Stories for the Week of July 25, 2022

It’s been a busy week, from political strain to natural disasters. Who has time to keep track of it all? That’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top stories of the week.   Around The United…

The Dead Sea Scrolls

The first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries occurred in 1947 in Qumran, a village situated about twenty miles east of Jerusalem on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. A young Bedouin shepherd,…

Howard K. Smith 2002 Deaths

Howard K. SmithAge: 87 opinionated broadcast journalist who covered WWII, the Nuremberg trials, the cold war, and the civil rights protests of the 1960s. In 1960 he moderated the first…

Aesop's Fables: The Three Tradesmen

by Aesop The Tunny-Fish and the DolphinThe Mouse and the BullThe Three Tradesmen The citizens of a certain city were debating about the best material to use in the fortifications which…

Donner or Donder?

The Question: Is Santa's reindeer named Donner or Donder? The Answer: Yes. Santa's reindeer were first named in "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (better…