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The Liberty Bell is seen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Feb. 12, 2015. Photo: Reuters / Charles Mostoller. Sometimes, the biographies of individuals and cities intersect in ironic ways. A case in point is Dr. David Nassy, a leader of Dutch Suriname’s Sephardic Jewish community, who became Philadelphia’s first Jewish doctor during 1793’s yellow fever epidemic. Nassy was a dedicated Enlightenment thinker, who nonetheless supported slavery. He felt threatened by the political tumult after th...

We have frequently printed the word democracy . Yet I cannot too often repeat that it is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawaken’d, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted. —Walt Whitman   I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window....

2020-12-16 22:35:51 GMT2020-12-17 06:35:51(Beijing Time) Xinhua English by Xinhua writers Xiong Maoling, Tan Yixiao WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The United States and China are facing global challenges together, and its really important that Americans and Chinese understand each other better through educational exchanges, said a U.S. college president. "While we have different views about lots of things, about trade, about politics, about economics, we are on the same small planet and...

by Xinhua writers Xiong Maoling, Tan Yixiao WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The United States and China are facing global challenges together, and its really important that Americans and Chinese understand each other better through educational exchanges, said a U.S. college president. "While we have different views about lots of things, about trade, about politics, about economics, we are on the same small planet and we are facing some extraordinarily critical challenges," Margee Ensig...

Local winners have been announced in the 2020 VFW Voice of Democracy Contest sponsored by Westby Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8021. The theme of this year’s competition was “Is this the country our Founding Fathers envisioned?” The contest was open to all students in grades 9 through 12 including home-schooled students. This is a national contest, where the national winner receives a $30,000 college scholarship. There is a total of $153,000 in college scholarships awarded annual...

Honors/scholarships/awards: Best thing about my major: Philosophy not only invites you to be in conversation with the greatest thinkers of all time, but it also gives you permission to disagree with them. It’s exciting and invigorating to consider the “big questions.” I often joke with my friends about my essay topics—while they are examining the intersections of gender and race in the Olympics or critiquing the class disparities in 18th-century British literature, I am being asked to ...

So, to recap -- small business owners are heroes, and our heroes help heroes be heroes when theyre not eating gyros delivered by -- ah, you know what i mean. its are and whereing to know you come from. i didnt know a lot about my personal family history. and through ancestry it brought us closer to understanding where i came from. finding out that im part native american and that i was related to one of the founding fathers i think has brought me closer to feeling more patriotic, definitely, and...

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Finding out that im part native american and that i was related to one of the founding fathers i think has brought me closer to feeling more patriotic, definitely, and also feeling more like this is my home and this is truly where i came from. im jamie and im the fifth great-granddaughter of benjamin rush. ♪

Its a powerful thing to know where who you are and where you come from. i didnt know a lot about my personal family history. and through ancestry it brought us closer to understanding where i came from. finding out that im part native american and that i was related to one of the founding fathers i think has brought me closer to feeling more patriotic, definitely, and also feeling more like this is my home and this is truly where i came from. im jamie and im the fifth great-granddaughter of benj...