U.S. president Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), though possibly the dullest personality ever to inhabit the White House, was nevertheless a competent enough president during one of the most eventful adm...
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Today is Tuesday, March 13, the 72nd day of 2007. There are 293 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 13, 1925, a law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of...
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Today is Monday, Aug. 20, the 232nd day of 2007. There are 133 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Cze...
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Today is Tuesday, Nov. 6, the 310th day of 2007. There are 55 days left in the year. This is Election Day.Today's Highlight in History:On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln d...
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Emma Faust Tillman, who was born to former slaves and lived to see 21 American presidencies, died at a nursing home just four days after becoming the world's oldest-known living person. She was 114...
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Barry H. Landau, presidential collector and connoisseur, remembers the time he was dancing with Betty Ford at the White House and Fred Astaire cut in. Oh?"I recall I was doing a `Lindy' with Mrs. F...
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William Howard Taft revered the law.He studied it, worked with it as a lawyer and a judge and helped craft it as president.He even molded a fledgling nation (not ours) by nurturing it. The modern S...
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