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14 tragedies in history that happened the week of April 15-21
While disaster can strike at any time, an unusual number of tragic events seem to take place on a few inauspicious days in April. Eerie coincidence?
Cruelest week in history: Tragedies (FSU shooting, Titanic, Columbine) happened around April 20
While disaster can strike at any time, an unusual amount of tragic events seem to take place on a few inauspicious days in mid-April.
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Historian says Lincoln won Civil War with ‘the idea of Idaho,’ and early governor might have prevented assassination
IDAHO FALLS – Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14, 1865. America’s 16th president was 42 days into his ...
She’s been D.C.’s mayor for a decade. Here’s how her vision changed the city.
As Bowser marks her 10th anniversary as mayor, this annotation of portions of her first State of the District speech examines ...
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The Battle of Bull Run: The End of Illusions
It was a scene wholly unlike President-elect Abraham Lincoln’s arrival ... But after the first guns at Fort Sumter, when Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to put down the rebellion, the ...
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Voices: A War That Even Dr. King Would Approve Of
An abridged version of a speech delivered at Durham’s Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Church for the annual ...
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What Spurred the South to Join the American Revolution?
How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...