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AP on Care2.com- On This Day, 1861 – Confederacy Attacks Fort Sumter, Civil War BeginsOn this day, April 12, 1861, Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter, the nearly completed federal garrison positione […]
- Gingrich Brazenly Flip-Flops on Libya Intervention (Video)I'm sure there's been plenty of conservative commentators struggling with the Obama administration's decision to participate in […]
- Workers Protest Ohio Gov’s Speech (Video)Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich delivered his State of the State address in Columbus Tuesday, Mar. 8. As expected, […]
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News Junkie Post- One Year Ago We Lost Marc Parent February 22, 2012One year ago, the voice of Marc parent suddenly went silent on the internet. His online presence was extremely influential. Marc was one of those hyperactive activists whose broadcasting was busy, intense, and focused on real change and reform to try to make the world a better place. There was no better content aggregator and very few bigger influencers in t […]
- Progressives Guide to Social Media 4: StumbleUpon February 21, 2012StumbleUpon (SU) is a social bookmarking site where it is challenging to get a large, loyal following and content traction. It is less ergonomic than the social news site Digg, less functional than Reddit, and less social than both, but since they are sites that cater to current news, SU eventually will be the place where content can get far more long term e […]
- Will Syria’s Civil War Spread to a Regional Sectarian War between Sunnis and Shiites? February 19, 2012Nobody is contesting that Syria has entered a civil war. Despite the efforts of Russia and China, the time for negotiation and for defusing the crisis by a political solution seems to be over. In the power struggle within the Assad regime, which has been unfolding ever since the start of the uprising, the hard […]
- One Year Ago We Lost Marc Parent February 22, 2012
This Day in Failure- This Day in Failure: February 22 February 22, 20092011: The California Institute of Technology’s men’s basketball team defeats Occidental College 46-45, ending Caltech’s streak of 310 consecutive Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference losses—a string of futility that inspired a documentary (Quantum Hoops), and a feature in our magazine. The Beavers’ next-most-recent win came versus the Univ […]
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- pastINprint: RT @NanAron: It took the Senate 275 days to confirm Cathy Ann Bencivengo for the Southern District of CA. Final vote was 90-6. http://t. ...pastINprint: RT @NanAron: It took the Senate 275 days to confirm Cathy Ann Bencivengo for the Southern District of CA. Final vote was 90-6. http://t. ... […]
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- History Detective Announces Discovery of Earliest George Washington Document February 22, 2012DOYLESTOWN, Pa., Feb. 20, 2012--A detailed ink drawing of a clipper ship signed by George Washington has been discovered by Tom Lingenfelter of the Heritage Collectors' Society. One of America's most successful history detectives, who recently revealed what is now known to be the only True Copy of the Original Declaration of Independence, Lingenfel […]
- Records Show Confusion in U.S. at Start of Japan’s Atomic Crisis February 22, 2012WASHINGTON — Something resembling a “fog of war” prevailed at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s headquarters in the first hours and days after the Fukushima accident began last March, the N.R.C.’s chairman said Tuesday, as the agency released a cache of transcripts of internal conference calls beginning hours after the earthquake.The N.R.C. got some of its […]
- Plaque to honour Malcolm X visit to Smethwick in 1965 February 22, 2012Malcolm X has been honoured with a plaque in Smethwick almost 50 years after he visited the West Midlands town during heightened racial tensions.The civil rights campaigner gave interviews in 1965 in Marshall Street where white householders were lobbying the council to buy up houses to prevent black or Asian families moving in.The father-of-six was assassina […]
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- Sealab February 5, 2012In the 1960s, Americans were focused on space and the idea of sending a man to the moon. In the meantime, a scrappy group of sea-dwelling divers were looking down—to the bottom of the ocean—and opening a vast undersea world to human exploration. […]
- The Siege of Leningrad January 28, 2012In “Leningrad,” author Anna Reid recounts the siege and contends that the death toll would have been far lower under a different sort of government, one better prepared and more responsive to the challenges faced by the city’s citizens. […]
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