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Remember history of Bachmann House
In the decades before the American Revolution, Britain and France were fighting each other all over the globe to become the dominant power in the emerging colonial world. Arguably the most significant of these battles was for supremacy in North America....Tags: Delaware, Local Authority, Treaties, Wars and Interventions, Northampton County (Virginia)
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Author: A tribute to redcoat may have paid off big
Associated Press WriterDid the money Massachusetts spent on a monument honoring a British officer killed in a forgotten skirmish 250 years ago pay big dividends two decades later when the deceased redcoat's brothers were poised to crush the rebellious American colonies? The...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Massachusetts, Armed Forces, Wars and Interventions, Defense
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Daily almanac
1777: During the American Revolution, British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga. 1928: The first all-talking feature, The Lights of New York, had its gala premiere in New York. 1933: The first All-Star baseball game was played at Chicago's Comiskey Park;...Tags: American League, U.S. Cellular Field, Tennis, Althea Gibson, National League
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
1776: The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. 1802: The U.S. Military Academy officially opened at West Point. 1826: Former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died. 1831: The fifth U.S. president, James Monroe,...Tags: National Government, James Monroe, Thomas Jefferson, Government, Censorship
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A lifelong passion
ELLEN BRUSH MCGEE COOK, 67 Daughters of the American Revolution/Wantagh Cook has been involved with the Wantagh Fourth of July Parade for nearly her entire life, managing to march every year but one since 1947. She even went to school with the first...Tags: Fourth of July, Festive Event
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Kutztown Folk Festival brings history to life
Fifty years ago on July 2, 1958, Morning Call readers found a local story with the title, ''Dutch Folk Festival Opening Today.'' This story reported on the ever popular Kutztown Folk Festival. By 1958, the festival was already in its ninth year of...Tags: Diseases, Pennsylvania, Kutztown Folk Festival, Festive Event, Virus Diseases
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A poison pen
Bloomberg NewsReading "The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal" is like watching a cobra devour forest vermin. Even if you don't have much feeling for the prey, you may pause at the thought of what might happen if the monster turned its attention on you. Not that Vidal...Tags: Carson McCullers, John Updike, Italo Calvino, Edmund Wilson, Gore Vidal
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
1777: British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution. 1917: Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence and Auda Abu Tayi captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks during World War I. 1928: The first all-talking feature, "The Lights of New...Tags: American League, U.S. Cellular Field, Tennis, Althea Gibson, National League
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Taxes: Shared responsibility makes citizenship priceless
Special To The SentinelThe currency of the nation had become a standing joke during the war years. The government and those not involved in the prosecution of the war had a deep aversion to paying taxes to support the conflict, and the national government refused to prosecute...Tags: National Government, Government Health Care, Government, Armed Forces, Sales
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Why a revolution?
(Letter to H. Niles) The American Revolution was not a common event. Its effects and consequences have already been awful over a great part of the globe. And when and where are they to cease? But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean...Tags: Imperial and Royal Matters, Constitutional Issues, John Adams, Civil Unrest, Revolutions
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Jul 4, 2008
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