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Meet The Newest American Girl - Rebecca rubin
Meet Rebecca Rubin , the first historical Jewish American Girl doll , whose story will introduce young readers to Russian-Jewish immigrant life amongst the tenement houses of the Lower East Side of New York City in 1914. "I'm surprised," Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League tells the New York Times , "It's not offensive. It's sensitive. How about that?
When I was little, I was friends with a girl who rode bareback in a circus. Who isn't intrigued by itinerant circus folk, and random Catholic nuns who travel with the Greatest Show on Earth? A piece on CNN.com profiles a number of families who travel in the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Daniel Raffo , tiger trainer, is a fifth-generation circus performer. His wife, Andrea, performs the same "aerial ballet" that her mother and grandmother did. The couple has a four-year-old son, Davian.
Under the Big Top: Circus Families Are Creepy, Awesome
We've mentioned the awesome Hedy Lamarr before, but a new play , Frequency Hopping , has more details on the movie star who was also a "shrewd inventor." Lamarr's husband, a Austrian Fascist weapons manufacturer, dragged her to business meetings in an effort to derail her acting career. She walked away from the unhappy marriage, but ended up developing a way to make radio-guided weapons resilient to detection and jamming. She patented her technology, but the U.S. Navy didn't take her very seriously ("We won't be needing your services here in Washington," they allegedly said.) But "frequency hopping," as it is called, was used during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and now, in wireless technologies like cell phones.
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National Archives - draft cards of notable WWI registrants
Read a description of this record series in ARC (ARC ID 572850) The 24 million World War I Draft Registration Cards in the custody of the National Archives Southeast Region provide an invaluable resource for academic researchers and genealogists. All males in the United States, born between the years 1872 and 1900, were required by law to register for the draft throughout 1917 and 1918. This series of records includes cards from all 50 states and Puerto Rico. The answers provided to the questions on the cards typically reveal details about where a man lived, his occupation, race, immigration status, and in many cases his place of origin and nearest relative.
On November 5, 1605 , a solitary figure is arrested in the cellars of Parliament House. Although he first gives his name as John Johnson, a startling series of events begins to unfold under torture. Guy Fawkes, as he is really called, is one of thirteen who have conspired to blow up the parliament, the King, and his Lords, thereby throwing the whole country into turmoil, out of which these traitors hoped to raise a new monarch who was sympathetic to their cause, and return England to its Catholic past.
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Blog Archive » Remember, remember the Fifth of November
November 5, 1605 , a solitary figure is arrested in the cellars of Parliament House. Although he first gives his name as John Johnson, a startling series of events begins to unfold under torture. Guy Fawkes, as he is really called, is one of thirteen who have conspired to blow up the parliament, the King, and his Lords, thereby throwing the whole country into turmoil, out of which these traitors hoped to raise a new monarch sympathetic to their cause, and return England to its Catholic past. The circumstances that surround what drove these thirteen disaffected Catholics, led by the charismatic Robert Catesby, to such a desperate act are the focus of the Gunpowder Plot Society for the circumstances are far from straightforward.
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