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Inspired Living
Bonding or Bondage
By Rabbi David Aaron
Why Serve the Divine?
Reality Check
It's really unusual for faculty members to publicly denounce an undergraduate editorial. But we live in unusual times
Slouching toward ...
The bigamy movement now have rites, if not legal staus --- yet
Must-Know Info
Many parents are scrambling to find baby formula. Pediatricians say there are some alternatives, but it's important to avoid shortcuts and consult your doctor
Wellness
Cyclists are taking to gravel to get away from cars while avoiding the tougher challenge of mountain biking. Before you head out, find out where to ride and what to bring with these tips
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
Turn 'dinner' into a Mediterranean-inspired feast with creamy, spiced-blend lamb brochettes
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• A.F. Branco BONUS!
• Rivers
• Kirk Walters BONUS!
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]
On this day in . . . • 526, an earthquake kills about 300,000 people in Syria and Antiochia
• 1862, the Union Congress passes the Homestead Act, allowing an adult over the age of 21, male or female, to claim 160 acres of land from the public domain. Eligible persons had to cultivate the land and improve it by building a barn or house, and live on the claim for five years, at which time the land became theirs with a $10 filing fee
• 1856, Edward Hughes of Louisville, Kentucky, received a patent for his telegraph ticker, the first ticker to print successfully. Hughes had already sold his patent rights to the Commercial Company for $100,000 in November 1855
• 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets
• 1882, the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy is formed
• 1891, the first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope, which was designed for films to be viewed individually through the window of a cabinet housing its components. The Kinetoscope introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video: it creates the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter
• 1916, the Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage")
• 1920, Montreal radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America
• 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on his historic solo flight to France
• 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
• 1939, regular transatlantic air service began as a Pan American Airways plane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from Port Washington, N.Y., bound for Europe
• 1969, U.S. and South Vietnamese forces captured Ap Bia Mountain, referred to as 'Hamburger Hill' by the Americans, following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War
• 1974, Judge John Sirica ordered U.S. President Richard Nixon to turn over tapes and other records of 64 White House conversations on the Watergate affair
• 1989, Chinese Premier Li Peng declared martial law in Beijing in response to heightened student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square
• 1993, an estimated 93 million people tuned in for the final first-run episode of "Cheers" on NBC TV
• 1998, the government unveiled the design for the new $20 bill, featuring a larger and slightly off-center portrait of Andrew Jackson
• 2003, the United States banned all beef imports from Canada after a lone case of mad cow disease was discovered in the heart of Canada's cattle country
• 2006, federal agents searched the Capitol Hill office of U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., as part of a bribery investigation
• 2008, Sen. Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor; some experts gave the Massachusetts Democrat less than a year to live
• 2010, researchers announced the creation of a "synthetic" genetic cell that could replicate itself
• 2012, a two-day NATO summit hosted by President Barack Obama opened in Chicago; the allies declared the end of the long and unpopular Afghanistan war was in sight even as they struggled to hold their fighting force together in the face of dwindling patience and shaky unity. Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Chicago, airing grievances about war, climate change and a wide range of other complaints. ALSO: Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, 60, the only man convicted in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, died in Tripoli, Libya. AND: The Pakistani government temporarily blocked access to Twitter because of what an official called "objectional" discussions about Muhammad
• 2013, a tornado struck the Moore, Okla., area near Oklahoma City, killing 24 people, injuring more than 300 and destroying many buildings, including two elementary schools
• 2015, four of the world's biggest banks - JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup's banking unit Citicorp, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland - agreed to pay more than $5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to rigging the currency markets
• 2018, King Mswati III announced he was changing the name of his country, Swaziland, to eSwatini, which means "land of the Swazis."
•2021, Israeli officials agreed to an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire with Palestinian terrorist group Hamas to end a 15-day murder spree that killed more than 250 people
[ I N S I G H T ]
(THOUGHT PROVOKING) Michael Barone: It's Still Not Exactly Trump's Republican Party
News of the Weird: News That Sounds Like a Joke
MediaWatch by Tim Graham: Abortion Doctors Hate 'Inflammatory' Republican Questions
Greg Crosby: Divider-In-Chief
Josh Hammer: Against American Mobocracy
Todd N. Tucker: Supply chains endanger American security. Here's what Biden is doing
Rich Lowry: Why Even America-First Conservatives Should Back Aid to Ukraine
Daniel W. Drezner: Crypto R.I.P.?
Stephen Mihm: Elon Musk is acting like Henry Ford. Uh-Oh.
Marianna Sotomayor: Republican House Latinos mobilize to bolster ranks and influence
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