Book launching for local Charlotte author; books geared towards history instructors and curriculum coordinators, enthusiasts, archives and collections curators and those who wish to reference patriotism.

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Its All About Government

Not only is 'This time is different', this place is also different. In the land of free and the home of the brave, one can "...spent years investigating wreckage scattered across documents from nearly a millennium of economic crises and collapses. They have wandered the basements of rare-book libraries, riffled through monks yellowed journals and begged central banks worldwide for centuries-old ...

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Comment on Reinhart and Rogoff: This Time Is Different by aiD_kamikuP

At Hull House, in the squalid slums of Chicago's West Side, Jane Addams, a priestess of understanding among neighbors and of peace among nations, kept open hours for prince and pauper alike. It was her shrine and it will remain her monument.

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Jane Addams A Foe of War and Need

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Batman triumphs over Superman as comic fetches record price (Guardian Unlimited)

First to the finish. First to four gold medals. Germany's Andre Lange rarely loses -- and never in the Olympics

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Germany's Lange wins gold in bobsled (AP via Yahoo! Sports)

Iranian nuclear scientist Massoud Ali Mohammadi was killed Tuesday in a rare bomb attack in Tehran which state media quickly blamed on "counter-revolutionaries" and foreign powers. Mohammadi, a lecturer at Tehran university, died when a bomb strapped to a motorcycle was triggered by remote control outside his home in the...

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Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran bomb attack (New York Post)

As a visually impaired ski racer, Caitlin Sarubbi is relying on a combination of her feel for gravity, the radio messages of her guide and a bottomless store of courage. Her downhill race at the Paralympics is just the latest milestone in her lifelong ba.

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Brooklyn's Caitlin Sarubbi overcomes rare vision disorder to compete on U.S. Disabled Ski Team (New York Daily News)

In the US today, there is a massive infrastructure for spreading lies and distortions – a right-wing media machine that reaches from newspapers, magazines and books to cable TV, talk radio and the Internet. Mainstream US jounalists have cowered in career fear, notes Robert Parry .

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The Truth Will Not Out, on Its Own (Middle East Online)

SUSAN LARSON The Times-Picayune Last Island's demise to an 1856 hurricane is part of local lore.

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Storm stories: New books tell Last Island's tragic tale (The Houma Courier)

The FBI says more than 3,000 stolen religious artifacts, books and antiquities -- including letters written by popes and kings -- found after their keeper's death are headed back to Italy.

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Artifacts worth millions found in Berwyn (Chicago Tribune)