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LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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September 11, 2003
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Let optimism prevail over fear
Much like the phantom limb that haunts the amputee, the lives lost two years ago this day still haunt this nation. Their absence is still felt; their loss still aches.
Those great skyscrapers, though reduced by hatred to dust, still cast a long shadow over us. In aiming for them, the terrorists surely knew they would hit something even bigger: our spirit. Not only our buildings were toppled that day.
The war against terror was abruptly imposed upon us, and thus far it is fear who ...
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Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississppi Delta after the Civil War
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review
; ...planters reluctantly sold wild back country lands to freed people. The "New South frontier" represented the "promised land" for many freed people. As the black...by the labors of blacks, back country lands attracted the interest of white planters...exerted economic pressure through both fraud and ...
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 "San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX)")
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Fraud Museum is for educating about financial malfeasance throughout history.
Newspaper article from: San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX)
; ...what about the Yazoo Land Fraud in 1794...billion. As for the Yazoo Land Fraud, it...million acres of land for $500,000...years later. The Fraud Museum features...these god-awful frauds," said Bill...enough to prevent fraud and damage to...extraordinary ...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Quiz: 50 for fun; POST PUZZLER.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...part in the surrender of a British land army in which siege? 15 The Frisian...which classic cartoons? 47 The 1795 Yazoo land fraud scandal saw politicians in the US state of Georgia bribed to sell land at knock-down rates to speculators...
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 "Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA)")
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Private property plan causes stir at Capitol.
Newspaper article from: Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA)
; ...domain --- the legal right to seize land. The process of selecting projects...compared the proposal to the 1795 Yazoo Land Fraud, in which the state's lawmakers...bribes to sell the state's western land claims. The Savannah Morning News...
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'WILLIAM FEW: FORGOTTEN PATRIOT' ON DISPLAY IN HONOR OF CONSTITUTION DAY
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...by President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Documents relating to the siege of Savannah, the scandal of the Yazoo land fraud, religion in Georgia camp meetings and the establishment of the University of Georgia, also known as Franklin College...
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ATHENS, Ga.: UGA Observes Constitution Day, Sept. 17
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service
; ...Savannah, in which the casualties of our French allies were higher than that of the Americans; the scandal of the Yazoo Land Fraud; religion in Georgia camp meetings; and the establishment of the University of Georgia, also known as Franklin...
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Analysis: Farm subsidy fraud on the rise
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition
; ...Analysis: Farm subsidy fraud on the rise Host: RENEE...government--income tax fraud, Medicare fraud, defense...J. DOWDY: The more land that Kenneth Goodman had...square-foot home in Yazoo City, buy home furnishings...will widen its probe. In Yazoo City, where cotton is...
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Yankees Who Changed the South
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...and the future was no longer in the land of the Lost Cause. Hundreds, possibly...summer. Albert T. Morgan, sheriff of Yazoo County, Mississippi, was a doomed soul...white popular base and no scruples about fraud or terror. "Every Democrat," said a...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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SEARCH FOR ROOTS TAKES MUCH TIME AND PERSISTENCE
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...He told her she had 30 days to claim land that belonged to her father because of...She discounted the call as an attempted fraud, but it reminded her or earlier attempts...because of geography. Her family lived near Yazoo City, Miss., until the early part of...
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