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62Kicking the Cigarette Habit With the Family's Support
Cigarettes are one of the most common forms of substance abuse that is legal. The drug Chantix is well known for its effectiveness with helping a smoker quit their habit. However, most doctors will recommend to their patients that they need to...
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77What Caused a Small California Gold Rush Town to Secede from the Union | Legend of the Great Republic of Rough and Ready
The legend of The Great Republic of Rough and Ready, a gold rush era town in northern California that spent three months as an independent nation in 1850.
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53Sudan may Disintegrate Further
It seems Sudan and its people have not learnt any lesson from its disintegration. Again the Muslims are trying to enforce their writ on the Christian community living in the Southern part of Sudan.
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54Turn Out The Lights, The Party Is Over For Rick Perry
After turning in two consecutive embarrassingly poor performances in the GOP presidential nominee debates, in which, at times, Rick Perry seemed to have trouble completing a sentence or formulating a simple thought, Perry aggressively attacked his...
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61From the People Who Brought You the Death and Destruction of the Salem Witchcraft Trials--Michele Bachmann
I just finished reading one of the most terrifying articles of all time. In the current issue of New Yorker magazine, writer Ryan Lizza’s “Leap of Faith” exposes Republican presidential frontrunner Michele Bachmann as a politician so ensconced...
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70Pakistan at the crossroads-1
Pakistan was the first country that came in to being in the name of a religion; no one knew at the time of its independence that majority of its people would not agree as to what extent the role should...
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54The Secession Follies
When state legislators start talking about secession from the United States, it really epitomizes the waste of taxpayer dollars. Aside from the obvious reason that any one state cannot survive on its...
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441932: New York City
Alfred Stieglitz was born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1864. He was the eldest of six children. He was educated in Germany as an engineer and returned to New York in 1890. Stieglitz wanted to prove that photography was an art form. He became the editor...
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93Was the Civil War Worth the Cost?
620,000 Americans died in the United States’ only Civil War, and another 400,000 were wounded. These numbers in themselves are difficult for Americans to wrap their minds around. But when you consider the fact that there were approximately 32...
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61The Art of Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian painter born in 1862 and a figure in the Vienna Secession movement. He most well-known for his paintings of the female body, which during his time were often deemed to be obscene...
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