The Stamp Act
Issued by British Parliament
Passed on March 22, 1765; excerpted from Documents of American History, 1958
"There shall be raised, levied, collected, and paid unto his Majesty, his...
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Today is Sunday, March 18, the 77th day of 2007. There are 288 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 18, 1937, some 300 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion...
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Today is Thursday, March 22, the 81st day of 2007. There are 284 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 22, 1765, Britain enacted the Stamp Act of 1765 to raise money from the ...
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Today is Tuesday, May 29, the 149th day of 2007. There are 216 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 29, 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of B...
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Today is Sunday, Oct. 7, the 280th day of 2007. There are 85 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 7, 1765, the Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grie...
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Today is Friday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2007. There are 73 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 19, 1781, British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown,...
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Today is Friday, Oct. 19, the 292nd day of 2007. There are 73 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Oct. 19, 1781, British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown,...
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Humorous Mike Huckabee has become the sum of all fears for many members of the GOP establishment. Some of the attacks arise out of plain old Christophobia, and Huckabee can't do much about that. Bu...
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It can now be said with confidence that founding father John Adams would never vote for a Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or John Edwards.As witnessed by their South Carolina debate, each of these De...
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Former U.S. Sen. George McGovern has urged Congress to give more money to an international school lunch program that bears his name.The McGovern-Dole school lunch program debuted with $300 million ...
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John Adams: Party of One, by James Grant. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 544 pages, $30.
Any biography of John Adams that works anxiety, insecurity, worry and dread into its first paragraph is off on ...
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The Stamp Act
Today in history - March 18
