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With all the attention given to the crybabies in football uniforms this weekend, you may have missed something important. There was a church shooting in Tennessee. One person was killed, and six
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Editor’s Note: This is the tenth chapter of Alfred the Great, by Jacob Abbot (published 1872). (Continued from Part 9) X. The Victory Over the Danes Encouraged by his dream, and animated
Editor’s Note: Hyman Appelman was born in Russia to orthodox Jewish parents who moved to America in 1914. Appelman became a trial lawyer in Chicago. At age twenty-eight he was converted to
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