Note: This review was originally written for a library service called Tele-book in which people could call a special number to hear reviews read. I also used this book extensively in the article I wrote about the Jean Harris-Herman Tarnower case that appears at http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/women/harris/1.html. Very Much A Lady by Shana Alexander, author of...
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Colonists were forced to house British soldiers. On MARCH 5, 1770, a crowd protested and in the confusion British soldiers fired, killing five, one being Crispus Attucks, the most famous African America who participated in the Revolution. Paul Revere’s popular engraving of the Boston Massacre fanned flames of anti-British sentiment. Joseph Warren, the President...
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The Alamo mission at San Antonio was in its 7th day of being assaulted by thousands of Santa Anna’s troops. By the 13th day, Santa Anna’s “take-no-prisoner” policy had all 189 defenders killed, including Jim Bowie and former U.S. Congressman Davy Crockett. The only Texas army left in the field was Col. James Fannin’s....
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God, Who can impose whatever He wants upon the cosmos, chooses to give us free will. Sunday’s sermon at Black Rock-Long Ridge Congregational Church (North Stamford, Connecticut) was preached by Pastor Larry Fullerton, who confessed that sometimes he wishes God were different. How satisfying it would be if God employed His awesome power to...
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FEBRUARY 29 is Leap Day. In 45 B.C., Julius Caesar replaced the calendars used throughout the Roman Empire based on the moon’s cycles with a calendar based on the sun, having 365 days and a “leap” day every 4th year. It was modified by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to omit leap days in...
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FEBRUARY 29 is Leap Day. In 45 B.C., Julius Caesar replaced the calendars used throughout the Roman Empire based on the moon’s cycles with a calendar based on the sun, having 365 days and a “leap” day every 4th year. It was modified by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 to omit leap days in...
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His grandson, Robert, was the U.S. Navy Commodore who helped freed slaves found Liberia, West Africa, and in 1846 captured California-the city of Stockton named for him. His brother-in-law, Elias Boudinot, was a Continental Congress President and founder of the American Bible Society. His daughter married Declaration Signer Benjamin Rush. His name was Richard...
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“Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere…Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch…One if by land, two if by sea…” These lines are from the poem, Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, born FEBRUARY 27, 1807. An American poet and Harvard Professor, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
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“God is behind everything, but everything hides God,” wrote Victor Hugo in his classic Les Miserables, Book 5, Chapter 4. Born FEBRUARY 26, 1802, Victor Marie Hugo was hailed as the greatest of the Romanticists poets. He is best know for writing Cromwell, 1827, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1831, and Les Miserables, 1862,...
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There is an antidote to the feckless way too many of us live our lives. Pastor Steve Treash at the Black Rock-Long Ridge Congregational Church (North Stamford, Connecticut) continued his examination of God’s will for our lives. His focus this Sunday was God’s will for our future. The inescapable point is that God holds...
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Nowadays, in order to justify each and every sin under the sun, each and every assault upon the moral fiber of a community or a nation – one approach fits all – the ne’er-do-well need only say the magic word “privacy,†then sit back, relax and smile while his or her “high and holyâ€Â...
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George Washington was born FEBRUARY 22, 1732. He was unanimously chosen as the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in 1775, unanimously chosen as President of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and unanimously chosen as the first President of the United States in 1789. After the Declaration of Independence was read to his troops, July...
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The Uniform Holiday Bill, signed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1968, moved the celebration of George Washington’s Birthday to the third Monday in FEBRUARY. Sometime after this, with Lincoln’s birthday also being in the month of February, people began referring to the holiday as “Presidents’ Day.” Of note is that Presidential tradition is to...
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istockphoto/Mike Elliot Those who stand up to protect marriage as the union of one woman and one man are sometimes slower to oppose civil unions. Isn’t the support of civil unions for same-sex couples just a comfortable, compromise? No. Civil unions are a slippery slope to same-sex marriage. Yesterday’s report from the New Jersey...
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Have you heard this one lately? “Don’t shove your religion down my throat!” In this hypersensitive age, who hasn’t? All too frequently, such denunciations come in response to the free exercise of religious speech in a public place or public forum or, even more often than we suppose, in protest to like speech in...
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On Sunday, Wikinews interviewed creator of memorial site LisaMcPherson.org, former Lisa McPherson Trust employee and long time Scientology critic Jeff Jacobsen. LisaMcPherson.org is a memorial site created in 1997 containing information on her death and the resulting legal case against the Church of Scientology. Lisa McPherson died in 1995 while in the care of...
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The groans of a dying man kept him awake in the little inn outside New York, but he was hardened to the cries because a college friend at Brown University had persuaded him to be an atheist. The next morning he learned the man who died in the night was none other than his...
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Do you know the answer to these questions? · Did the federal government ever declare a “President’s Dayâ€Â? · Whose birthday was it supposed to honor? When was it changed to the 3rd Monday in February? · Which President was the youngest? Oldest? Tallest? Shortest? Heaviest? · Which Presidents declared war on the Muslim...
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Television producer and owner of the anti-Scientology website XenuTV.com, Mark Bunker, also known as Wise Beard Man, chatted online with Wikinews for nearly three hours. More than 120 people followed the interview live (many from Project Chanology), which makes this exclusive Wikinews interview our most attended IRC interview to date. Bunker started XenuTV in...
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Technological advances and changing life styles confront the average person today with unprecedented numbers of often worrisome decisions to be made each day. Pastor Steve Treash’s sermon today at Black Rock-LongRidge Congregational Church (North Stamford, Connecticut) focused upon guidelines for making Christian choices in our lives. In the past, most women became housewives and...
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