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Guns Are Not Toys
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You have probably heard stories about children being hurt or
killed by guns. The stories are shown on the TV news and appear in
the newspaper. Sometimes, they report on kids who shoot other kids
by accident. "I was only fooling around, I didn't know the gun was
loaded," someone will say. "I didn't mean to do it."
Often, the children involved in these tragic incidents find a gun
hidden in a drawer or a closet. It's hard to tell if the gun has
bullets in it or not.
To little kids, the weapon looks like a toy. But it's not. And
if a child plays with a real gun, chances are good that someone is ...
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The Baron de Kalb plotter of patriot? In 1777 Bavarian baron slipped across the Atlantic to supplant George Washington. Johann de Kalb would instead become a stalwart American ally.(Baron Johann de Kalb)(Brief biography)
Magazine article from: Military History
; ...Continental Army. That man was Baron Johann de Kalb, and his evolution from European...to the idealistic Lafayette, de Kalb was no starry-eyed postadolescent...French army had better claim. De Kalb was born in 1721 to peasant parents...
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Marquis Captured A Nation's Heart
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...year-old pregnant wife, Adrienne, and year-old daughter. Accompanying him was another soldier of fortune, Johann Kalb, a Bavarian whose relatives would become prominent in the Lovettsville area. The voyage took 54 days. Lafayette served...
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France America's foreign friend: two mighty navies--the French and the British--faced one another at the Battle of the Capes in September 1781. The outcome of this naval battle helped determine what ultimately would happen at the siege of Yorktown.
Magazine article from: Cobblestone
; ...Lafayette. Lafayette was still a teenager when he arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with German-born Baron Johann de Kalb and nearly a dozen other men in July 1777. Yet Lafayette already had military experience, and he offered to serve...
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Credit a Revolutionary struggle for cash; Founders battle for funds to keep military operating.(PLUGGED IN - NATIONAL SECURITY)(AMERICA AT WAR)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...little or no food, supplies or clothes, they were, according to Greene, naked as the day they were born. Baron Johann de Kalb said those who had not tasted the cruelties felt by soldiers in the war know not what it is to suffer. A private complained...
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Nation BRIEFINGS
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Corp., $1.1 million. The City of Rockford will receive $603,600, and PHA of De Kalb County will receive $988,560. CITIZENSHIP REVOKED: Johann Breyer, a Slovakia-born man who served as a guard at the Nazi-operated Buchenwald concentration...
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Clever Anti-Hero Or a Statesman?
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...subtitled "Portrait of a Mind" and by Marvin and Bernard Kalb in 1974. Certainly What Makes Henry Run? nicely echoes the...wonder worker with uppity ideas: the 16th century's celebrated Johann Faust. If Dr. Kissinger indeed cut a deal with the devil...
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GERMAN-AMERICAN DAY, 2000 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION
Transcript from: Regulatory Intelligence Data
; ...have strengthened our society through the years. Publisher Johann Peter Zenger championed freedom of the press in the early 18th...century New York. During the American Revolution, Baron de Kalb and Friedrich von Steuben fought valiantly for our freedom...
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EID-still.(Chart)
Magazine article from: PSA Journal
; ...Carlo, Italy 21 41 E-G Eloud, Nassim, Cyprus 7 8 Fenz, Johann, Austria 5 8 Ferchland, Wedigo, Denmark 9 18 Ferrari, Dani...Germany 4 7 Gerhardt, Christine, Germany 8 19 Gillies, Kalb, Australia 19 30 Glynn, Maureen, England 6 10 Goodyear...
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A PROCLAMATION: German-American Day, 2000
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire
; ...have strengthened our society through the years. Publisher Johann Peter Zenger championed freedom of the press in the early 18th...century New York. During the American Revolution, Baron de Kalb and Friedrich von Steuben fought valiantly for our freedom...
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Proclamation 7352--German-American Day, 2000.(Brief Article)(Transcript)
Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
; ...have strengthened our society through the years. Publisher Johann Peter Zenger championed freedom of the press in the early 18th...century New York. During the American Revolution, Baron de Kalb and Friedrich von Steuben fought valiantly for our freedom...
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