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U.S. shifts jets to Afghanistan
The Associated PressWorried about increasing insurgent attacks in Afghanistan, the U.S. military says it is sending extra air power there by shifting an aircraft carrier from the Iraq war. Defense officials said Tuesday that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was...Tags: International Military Interventions, Espionage and Intelligence, Wars and Interventions, Guerrilla Activity, Defense
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A Summary of Illinois News
Lawmakers representing thousands of workers at tire manufacturing plants in Illinois and Iowa said Tuesday that Chinese-made imports have been sharply undersold here, threatening domestic manufacturers of off-the-road tires. "I don't know how much...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Sociology, Colleges and Universities, Homes, Tribune Company
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Pentagon putting more air power on Afghanistan
Associated Press WriterWorried about increasing insurgent attacks in Afghanistan, the U.S. military says it is sending extra air power there by shifting an aircraft carrier away from the Iraq war. Defense officials said Tuesday that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln was...Tags: International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions
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Noted Civil War historian dies at 75
John Y. Simon, one of the nation's foremost scholars on President Grant and the Civil War, died Tuesday, Southern Illinois University officials said. He was 75. Simon died at a Carbondale hospital, said a Huffman-Harker Funeral Home spokesman. The...Tags: Sociology, Wars and Interventions, Colleges and Universities, National Government, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
1865: Four people were hanged in Washington, D.C., for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. 1981: President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female...Tags: Ronald Reagan, National Government, Government
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Obama has a vision for the Lincoln Bedroom
He's not president yet, but Barack Obama has already given some thought to White House decor. Asked at a town hall-style meeting in Fargo, N.D., about any decorating plans for the Lincoln Bedroom, Obama described a visit to the White House after he...Tags: Barack Obama, The White House, ESPN
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Va. fort's future in focus as Army plans pullout
Associated Press WriterFort Monroe -- a Union oasis where fugitive slaves flocked during the Civil War -- returns to Virginia's control when the Army pulls out in 2011, and historians are trying to protect the future of the "Freedom Fortress." Many slave descendants trace...Tags: Executive Branch, Wars and Interventions, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Defense, Virginia
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History of Old Point Comfort and Fort Monroe
Highlights of the history of Old Point Comfort and Fort Monroe: _ April 28, 1607: Capt. Christopher Newport and English settlers land on peninsula before sailing on to Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. _ 1609: Fort...Tags: Georgia, Hampton Roads, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Thomas Jefferson
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The spirit of America's independence lives on today
saulfriedman@comcast.netWe have a new reason to celebrate this Independence Day. For if you take the long view of history, as I do, you could say that the events on another Fourth of July, in 1863, saved the America that was envisioned by the founders and made possible in...Tags: Richard Nixon, Wars and Interventions, Elections, Justice and Rights, Fourth of July
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Leaders today should learn from our Founding Fathers
By Kingsley Guy The 232nd Fourth of July finds South Florida and the rest of the nation in a political funk. To say the current George W. doesn't measure up to George Washington is an understatement of monumental proportions. Congress' approval rating is...Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Nancy Pelosi, National Government, Thomas Jefferson, Dennis J Kucinich
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