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Talk about one, ahem, messed-up dude

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An international bestselling author reveals proven techniques.

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The agency goes after scammers, then looks for victims to repay

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How to make the perfect bircher muesli

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• Steve Kelley

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On this day in . . .

• 1009, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Church of the Resurrection) in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock

• 1648, Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor organization

• 1776, the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania was settled. Dubbed the "Mason-Dixon" line, it became the unofficial boundary between North and South

• 1851, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London

• 1867, the United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day

• 1892, the first long-distance telephone line between New York and Chicago was officially opened (it could only handle one call at a time)

• 1898, the United States takes possession of Puerto Rico

• 1922, the British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service

• 1925, the Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville

• 1944, Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, orders the establishment of a German national militia. ALSO: Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia

• 1945, the USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

• 1954, Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio

• 1967, the Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet

• 1968, the U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony at the Mexico City games

• 1968, first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft, the Apollo 7. ALSO: American Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the ten second barrier in the 100 metres Olympic final at Mexico City with a time of 9.95 sec. He would be the only man to do so until 1983

• 1989, the Iron Curtain nations of East Germany and Hungary take significant steps toward ending the communist domination of their countries to replace it with more democratic politics and free market economies. In Hungary, the Communist Party had disbanded on October 7. This action was followed by the razing of the barbed wire fence that had for years separated Hungary from Austria. The destruction of the fence effectively marked the end of the Berlin Wall as an impediment to travel between East and West Germany, since East Germans could now simply travel to Hungary, enter Austria, and go on from there to West Germany. Not surprisingly, the Berlin Wall came down shortly thereafter

• 1991, Israel and the Soviet Union agreed to renew full diplomatic relations for the first time since 1967

• 2010, four men, practitioners of that "religion of piece", snared in an FBI sting were convicted of plotting to blow up New York City synagogues and shoot down military planes with the help of a paid informant who'd convinced them he was a terror operative

• 2011, Gilad Shalit, a 25-year-old Israeli soldier kidnapped by the militant Palestinian group Hamas in a high-profile incident, was freed after being held for more than five years. His release came in exchange for 1,000 Palestinians who had spent years in Israeli jails.

• 2012, the number of people to pass through the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France passed the 300 million mark. The 31-mile tunnel beneath the English Channel opened in 1994.

• 2013, tens of thousands of commuters were stranded in the San Francisco area by the second Bay Area Rapid Transit strike of the year. It lasted four days

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(PROFOUND) Harvey C. Mansfield: Parties Vs. Factions In America

News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: More of the World's Third-Oldest Crime

Garrison Keillor: The old obit man looks around

L. Brent Bozell III: Lib Billionaires Are Never Villains

Kathleen Parker: #MeToo: Tipping point, or outrage du jour?

Margaret Sullivan: From the pen of an 18-year-old Harvey Weinstein: An aggressor who won't be refused

Michelle Malkin: Beware the Rape Allegation Bandwagon

Ben Shapiro: 'Raising Awareness' Isn't Helping Much

Cheryl K. Chumley: John McCain, of all people, blasts at nationalism

John Stossel: A CNN SMEAR

Joseph Curl: New York Times editor admits paper is very, very (very) biased

Hugh Hewitt: If Senate Republicans don't want the majority, they are doing everything right

• Google Maps pulls cupcake calorie-counting feature after backlash

• A mother is accused of killing two of her young sons by placing them in a hot oven, police say

Walter Williams: Who Pays What in Taxes?

• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen

• Mallard Filmore