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Inspired Living
The Older-ly
By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
What the Good Book can teach Dangerfield --- and the rest of us
Reality Check
Jihad didn't end on 9-11-01! But now, headway is being made through more conventional means --- including free food and open seminars INCLUDES VIDEO
Humanity
My mother's desk connected me with our shared heritage
Must-know Info
Two-factor authentication can help secure your life online, but it often has a weak point
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
Chicken tagine with olives and preserved lemon is a meal to savor
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(THOUGHT PROVOKING) Michael Barone: Redistricting 'controversy' Proved to be much ado about not very much
News of the Weird: Rude
MediaWatch by Tim Graham: 'Fact-checkers' Bored by Biden's Outbursts
(SPOT ON) Rich Lowry: Scalia was right — again
Greg Crosby: Paying more than lipservice to motherhood
Josh Hammer: After Horrific SCOTUS Leak, Justices Must Plow Ahead and Overturn Roe
Neil Patel: America Is Probably in for a Rough Ride
Jeff Jacoby: Mississippi's mainstream abortion law
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• 1527, German troops sacked Rome, killing some 4,000 people and looting works of art and literature as part of a series of wars between the Hapsburg Empire and the French monarchy
• 1889, the Paris Exposition formally opened, featuring the just-completed Eiffel Tower
• 1915, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox hit his first major league home run in a game against the New York Yankees in New York
• 1935, in the depths of the Depression, the Works Progress Administration was established to provide work for the unemployed
• 1937, the German dirigible Hindenburg burst into flames while docking in Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 people
• 1941, Josef Stalin became official leader of the Soviet government
• 1945, during World War II: Axis Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops (first is on December 11, 1941) ALSO: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins
• 1954, 25-year-old British medical student Roger Bannister cracked track and field's most notorious barrier, the four-minute mile, during a meet at Oxford, England. His time: three minutes, 59.4 seconds
• 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960
• 1975, President Ford broadcast an appeal to Americans to welcome the thousands of Vietnamese refugees pouring into the United States
• 1983, the Hitler diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts
• 1989, Cedar Point opens Magnum XL-200, the first roller coaster to break the 200 ft height barrier, therefore spawning what is considered to be the coaster wars
• 1993, two postal workers, both apparently bitter over their treatment at work, allegedly shot co-workers in separate incidents in post offices in Michigan and California, leaving at least three dead and three wounded
• 1994, Paula Jones accused President Clinton with making an unwanted advance during a meeting in a hotel room in 1991, when he was governor of Arkansas. It was believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind against a sitting president. ALSO: The Channel Tunnel, a railway under the English Channel connecting Britain and France, was officially opened
• 1997, the Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history
• 2001, American businessman Dennis Tito ended the world's first paid space vacation as he returned to Earth aboard a Russian capsule
• 2006, the largest rebel group in Sudan's Darfur region and the government of Sudan signed a peace agreement ending their armed conflict in a three-year civil war that claimed an estimated 200,000 lives
• 2007, conservative Nicolas Sarkozy won the French presidency by a comfortable margin over socialist opponent Segolene Royal
• 2010, a computerized sell order triggered a "flash crash" on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones industrials to a loss of nearly 1,000 points in less than half an hour. ALSO: Conservatives captured the largest number of seats in Britain's national election but fell short of a majority. (Conservative leader David Cameron ended up heading a coalition government.) AND: A court in India sentenced to death the only surviving Pakistani gunman in the bloody 2008 Mumbai attacks. (Mohammed Ajmal Kasab is appealing his sentence.)
• 2011, the U.S. economy added 244,000 jobs in April but the unemployment rate rose to 9 percent
• 2014, Nigerian officials said nearly 300 girls had been kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists and were being held hostage
• 2017, French lawmakers passed a bill that requires models to provide a doctor's note to prove they are healthy, a bid to crack down on dangerously skinny models in the nation's highly competitive fashion industry. ALSO: Boko Haram release 82 schoolgirls who were among 276 kidnapped in the north Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014
• 2019, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, reported to federal prison northwest of New York City to start a three-year sentence for crimes including tax evasion and campaign finance violations related to hush-money payments made to protect Trump. (A Justice Department official said that because of the coronavirus pandemic, Cohen would serve the remainder of his sentence at home, following a 14-day quarantine period.) ALSO: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin notified the Dem chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee that the administration would not turn over the president's tax returns to the House, saying the request "lacks a legitimate legislative purpose."
• 2020, Israel's High Court ruled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can form a new government. His coalition was dissolved in December and a new election was held in March 2021
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