Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery
A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...
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Peter Phillips: On Charles Villiers Stanford
Stanford was among the first composers in Britain to write church music that was not automatically relegated to ...
Trump’s disturbing plan to redevelop Gaza is a violation of international law
The US president should be thinking of rebuilding Gaza for the people who lost everything, instead of turning it into a ...
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Inside Queen Victoria's scandalous relationship with servant John Brown who replaced her beloved husband until her death 124 years ago today
Victoria, who was known to be difficult and snobbish, was unexpectedly taken by the 'refreshingly different' and 'masculine' servant ... who described it as a 'great love letter to Brown ...
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Voltaire’s Candide: Exploring the Philosophy of Optimism
Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply ...
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Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
It has done no favours to the modern reputation of King Frederick II of Prussia – ‘Frederick the Great’ – that Hitler ... subjects probably enjoyed a greater degree of religious and personal freedom ...
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Opinion: White Advocacy Is for All of Us – Gregory Hood
A normal country put citizens first and is devoted to “ourselves and our posterity.” A true leader, as Frederick the Great said, is the first servant. We owe everything to workers and to young people ...
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Frederick Health still investigating if personal data was compromised in ransomware attack
Frederick Health Hospital CEO Tom Kleinhanzl said Thursday that the hospital is still trying to determine if personal data was compromised in a recent ransomware attack made on the facility last week.