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Stories tagged with: history
Martin Luther King: After the civil Rights Acts of 64 and 65
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/04/304/
Everyone knows that King fought for Civil Rights, but he died three years after achieving his goal. So what did he do in his last 3 years?
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George Bush's favorite historian - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2162837
A scathing review of "A History of the English-speaking Peoples Since 1900", a book that Bush admires.
"Other recent favorite [books] Bush has cited fall into this same, self-justifying category... Are we sure we want a president who spends so much time reading? The leader who loves books that tell him he is great and right may be worse than the leader who does not love books at all."
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Tags: politics, BUSH, history, war, Iraq, literature
L'Europe est copiée sur la Suisse, mais celle de l'Ancien Régime
http://www.letemps.ch/template/opinions.asp?page=6&article=2...
Déjà vu?
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Daytona beach, "the birthplace of speed"
http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2007/03/daytona-beach-birthpla...
Fogonazos: Daytona beach, in Florida (USA), is one of the few places in the world where a family car can be driven on an ocean beach. This was also the beach where automobile racing in America got off a century ago, and where NASCAR competition was born.
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Tags: daytona beach, cars, racing, speed, history, nascar
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