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Thanksgiving -- as Canadian as pirates
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Early tradition of expressing debt to farmers is worth reviving
My boss asked me the other day if I would write something about Thanksgiving. My first reaction was, Gobble Gobble, are you kidding? He shrugged his shoulders and disappeared into his office, but I decided to give it some thought anyway.
After a quick look at some online sources and a few dusty old encyclopedias in the Free Press library, I discovered that Canadian Thanksgiving actually has an interesting and controversial history. Did you know, for example, that the first Thanksgiving celebration in North America was held in ...
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100 Years Of Johnny Mercer, Pop Poet Laureate
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; ...Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer"): He was a national writer. Most of the writers were city people and Johnny came from the South, from a more rural part of America, and they're reflected in his work. (Soundbite of song, "Lazybones") Mr. MERCER...
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Assessing Obama's China Trip
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; ...visit to China. He met today with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, made a sightseeing trip to the Great Wall, then he left for South Korea. Together the U.S. and China buy and sell to each other and borrow and lend from each other on a colossal scale...
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MANAGING FORESTS IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE:ELAINE ONEIL PHD, MS, BSF, RPF
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; ...Washington,Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, andCalifornia and as far east as South Dakota. A relative of the mountainpine beetle, the spruce beetle, has wrought similar impacts on spruce forestsin Alaska...
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EASTERN EUROPE AMBASSADORIAL NOMINATIONS:JAMES B. WARLICK
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; ...than two decades, I have served as a careerdiplomat in the Department of State. Overseas, I have had assignments inEurope, South and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, including Iraq.Domestically, I have been responsible for U.S. policy at the...
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FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST TERRORISM:DR. KRISTIN M. LORD
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; ...financial assistance Americans provide to those in need, particularlyin predominantly Muslim societies in the Middle East, South Asia, and SoutheastAsia, or recall the military commitments our country has made to defendMuslim populations residing in Kuwait...
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Debut Novel Explores Life of Black Cavalryman
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; ...ALAN CHEUSE: Elijah Yancy has too much of a sense of justice and too hot a temper to survive in his hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina, or so his father wants him. As soon as he's old enough, Yancy, who's witnessed the lynching and his father...
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Daughters Remember Late Father, The Infamous Civil Rights Lawyer
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; ...fought for civil rights in the segregated South, who defended anti- war protesters in...and American Indians at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Or you might think of the man...hearing about the work that he did in the South and the work that he did during the anti...
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POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE MIDDLE EAST:GARY L. ACKERMAN
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; ...Ackerman Chairman Subcommittee on Middle East andSouth Asia Committee on House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle Eastand South Asia November 19, 2009 In some places, and particularly, in theMiddle East, people may wonder about the sincerity of American...
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EFFECT OF ECONOMIC DOWNTURN ON FOOD BANKS:SCOTT WOLF
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony
; ...reportedin food banks located in states like Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Mississippi,Missouri, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Driving this increase indemand are many new faces and first-time users. Not surprisingly, nearlyall food banks...
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Brushing Up On Tropical Diseases
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