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CROSSGATES man Sidney Arnold had a very happy 90th birthday on Christmas Eve. A piper and more than 50 socially-distanced villagers gathered outside his home in Church Place to wish him all the best. And he had an extra birthday present when he learned he was one of Cowdenbeath Football Club’s Festive Friends, through sponsorship from the Scottish Professional Football League Trust, and the Aldi store in the town, plus a lot of hard work from members of Cowdenbeath Rotary Club and direc...

Lessons From the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on How to Celebrate the Holidays Amid COVID-19 Time 12/21/2020 Sentinel. On Dec. 14, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 reached a grim, new milestone: 300,000 Americans killed. That’s nearly half of the 675,000 Americans killed a century ago during the 1918 flu, the deadliest pandemic in the 20th century, as historian Christopher Nichols pointed out on Twitter. The current wave of COVID-19 infections is the worst it’s been nationwide and, as TIME re...

point, of the democracy will respond. id like to think thats the case. its close as i can get to optimism. >> thank you for this. youve been wonderful, thanks. [applause] . . representative hastert recounted his years as a civics teacher, football coach and member of the u.s. house of representatives. he also discussed how he handled the daily responsibilities of the house immediately after the september 11 terrorist attacks. watch an encore presentation of this interview now on booktv...