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Category Archives: History
What It’s Like To Live In a Tiny Apartment Inside America’s Oldest Mall
The average new US home is about 2,600 square feet. You’ll get less than ten percent of that in these micro-apartments, which at their smallest are just 225 feet and make an art of fitting a life into a very … Continue reading
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Puertoricans came to North America before Columbus (Photos) – National Native American History | Examiner.com
¿Como? ¿Puertorriqueños en América del Norte antes de que Cristóbal Colón? ¡Por seguro! Forensic geologists and Native American scholars are opening the flood gates of new knowledge about North America’s past. What they are discovering is that what is now … Continue reading
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FCC approves net neutrality rules, reclassifies broadband as a utility
It’s a good day for proponents of an open internet: The Federal Communications Commission just approved its long-awaited network neutrality plan, which reclassifies broadband internet as a Title II public utility and gives the agency more regulatory power in the … Continue reading
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How to Explain Net Neutrality to Your Relatives: A Thanksgiving Guide
Thanksgiving is almost here, and that means turkey, mashed potatoes, and getting peppered with questions about tech-related news stories because hey, you read a bunch of blogs and you even know what a yik-yak is! It’s only a matter of … Continue reading
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The Soaring U.S. Outbreak of Vaccine-Preventable Disease, Visualized
Mealses, mumps, polio, rubella, whooping cough… All diseases that are eminently preventable by vaccination. But, as this data visualization shows, while their incidence has decreased by 57 percent around the world between 2008 and 2014, in the U.S. it’s soared … Continue reading
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Official NORAD Santa Tracker
For more than 50 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa’s flight. The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement misprinted the telephone number for children to … Continue reading
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How a schoolteacher helped create the first black Peanuts character
In 1968, shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a Los Angeles schoolteacher named Harriet Glickman wrote to Charles Schulz regarding the lack of integration in Peanuts. At that time, Peanuts was already one of the most popular comic strips in … Continue reading
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The real story in Ferguson is about the people who aren’t rioting
Jeniece Andrews and her husband Eddie own an antiques shop called Hidden Treasures just a few blocks from the Ferguson Police Department on South Florissant Avenue.Last month, Andrews, who is black, said someone came into her shop and told her … Continue reading
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Ferguson library offers hope in community rattled by violence
In the midst of a community rattled by violence, a library has become the symbol of resilience.While local schools have been forced to shut their doors and businesses have been boarded up in Ferguson, Missouri, the Ferguson Municipal Public Library … Continue reading
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Borinqueneer still serves as a military intelligence volunteer at 92 | Wiser With Age
The 65th Infantry Regiment, otherwise known as “Borinqueneers,” was created in 1899 by the U.S. Congress as a segregated unit composed primarily of Puerto Ricans. Thousands of these brave men served in World War I, World War II and the … Continue reading
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