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    Saturday, February 16, 2008    
         
      Twisting and Shouting Tonight
(02/16/08 06:26:26 PM; 190 words)
Fifty years ago, the Stockdale (PA) Fire Hall was the place for teens to be on Saturday nights in the Mon Valley. The facility is a few blocks from where....
   
    Friday, February 15, 2008    
         
      White Man, Sociology Major, Former Graduate Student, Dressed in Black, and Armed with Shotgun
(02/15/08 08:02:39 AM; 154 words)
Curiously, he remains anonymous. At least five students were killed, and many more were wounded, by the mass murderer at Northwestern Illinois University more than 16 hours ago. Authorities know....
   
    Thursday, February 14, 2008    
         
      It's a Bird. It's a Plane. No... It's a Superdelegate!
(02/14/08 06:19:01 PM; 474 words)
I'm sure you've been hearing about superdelegates. Here are a couple of news stories, one from the New York Times, the other from CNN; since the superdelegates under discussion belong....
   
    Tuesday, February 12, 2008    
         
      Abraham Lincoln's One Hundred and Ninety-Ninth Birthday II
(02/12/08 03:36:53 PM; 70 words)
Earliest photograph(s) of the 16th President of the United States of America. For many decades, the daguerreotype on the left was believed to be the earliest photograph of Abraham Lincoln,....
   
      Abraham Lincoln's One Hundred and Ninety-Ninth Birthday I
(02/12/08 01:57:14 PM; 1212 words)
Poetry by the 16th President of the United States of America. In the fall of 1844, Lincoln visited the region of Indiana (Perry & Spencer counties) where he had lived....
   

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