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[pWashington lost the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, and was force to retreat toward Philadelphia. Near the same time, British General Burgoyne's troops marched south from Canada toward Albany, New York,...

In 1788, poet Robert Burns published an ancient Scottish folk song "Auld Lang Syne," meaning "in days of old gone by." A similar poem was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in...

LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... "The power to tax involves the power to destroy," wrote Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819. Perhaps no one had...

The importance of elections was declared by President Calvin Coolidge, April 19, 1926: "The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box.”  First,...

Booker T. Washington was born in a slave hut on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia, APRIL 5, 1856.He taught himself to read and write,...

Beginning in the late 700s, Vikings from Scandinavia, called Danes and Swedes, began raiding the coasts and up the rivers of England and Europe. Since they were from "the north," they were referred to as Norse...

By the time of the Civil War, the slave population in the United States had grown to four million. The two major political parties in...

Abortion became legal in all nine months of pregnancy on January 22, 1973, with the Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Norma McCorvey, who...

In a lawsuit filed last week, Tammy Nobles, the mother of 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton, who was allegedly raped and murdered by an MS-13 gang...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Hamas' conditions to end the ongoing conflict, stating firmly, "I reject outright the terms of surrender of the...