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Rebel raids, Yankee occupation
Despite the stillness that fell across the killing fields of Williamsburg when the bloody battle of May 5, 1862 ended, the struggle to decide the town’s fate was far from over. Inside the houses lining Duke of Gloucester Street, the daughters...
Tags: Executive Branch, Fort Monroe, College of William and Mary, Unions, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia)
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Survivalist themes in TV shows, movies tap into fear of the big fall
Frankly, it sounded pretty stupid. For reasons unknown, electricity fails worldwide, sending humanity into a post-technological free-fall. Weeds grow in the Capitol (very "Logan's Run"), young women defend their families with bows and arrows (very "Hunger...
Tags: Revolution (tv program), Falling Skies (tv program), Spike (tv network), The Hunger Games (movie), Pretty Little Liars (tv program)
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Egypt protesters, police clash on Mubarak anniversary
ReutersCAIRO (Reuters) - Protesters demanding the departure of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi clashed with police outside his palace on Monday on the second anniversary of the overthrow of veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Dozens of youths threw rocks at the...Tags: Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian Revolution (2011-12), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Artists in Egypt work in a tense atmosphere
CAIRO — The Muslim women in Marwa Adel's photographs are shadows, repressed by custom, religion, marriage and regret. While nude, the figures are obscured by sepia scrims, scrawled upon with stifling words — as if their true selves may never...Tags: Marriage, Twitter, Inc., Mohamed Morsi, Egypt, Arts and Culture
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Iran's leader visits Cairo, easing long estrangement
CAIRO -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived to a red-carpet welcome and a kiss on the cheek by Egypt's new Islamist leader in a historic trip to strengthen relations between the two nations after decades of estrangement and suspicion. Iran...
Tags: Mohamed Morsi, Human Rights, Hosni Mubarak, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Thousands protest in Egypt after week of deadly riots
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.CAIRO -- Thousands of Egyptians protested Friday after a week of deadly riots that have shaken President Mohamed Morsi’s grip on the nation and spurred fears that fresh unrest may lead to economic collapse. [Updated at 12:45 p.m. Feb. 1: The...Tags: Mohamed ElBaradei, Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, Entertainment Events, Cairo (Egypt)
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Iran arrests more than a dozen journalists
TEHRAN - More than a dozen journalists were arrested in Iran on Sunday and Monday, reportedly detained for ties to foreign Farsi-language outlets, according to Iranian media. The wave of arrests marks a new crackdown on the media in Iran, five months...
Tags: Elections, Police Arrests, Politics, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, BBC
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Washington casts wary eye at Muslim Brotherhood
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama begins his second term straining to maintain a good relationship with Egypt, an important U.S. ally whose president is a conservative Islamist walking a fine line between acting as a moderate peace broker and...
Tags: Interreligious Dialogue, Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak, Suez Canal, Barack Obama
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Vietnam jails activists up to 13 years for 'subversion'
Fourteen activists were convicted of subversion Wednesday in Vietnam and sentenced to up to 13 years in prison, in an unusually large case centering on their alleged ties to a banned democracy group. Vietnamese state media reported that the dissidents...Tags: Human Rights Watch, Human Rights, Litigation, Amnesty International, Hanoi (Vietnam)
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Bethlehem's city officials disrespect Old Glory
If the American flag is not important, why run it up a flagpole in the first place? If the city of Bethlehem has other higher priorities at the moment, such as Christmas decorations, why not put the flag away for a few weeks instead of desecrating it?...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Holidays, Wars and Interventions, Labor Legislation, American Legion
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Critics Wonder if Morsy is Egypt's Next Strongman
CNNCAIRO, Egypt -- The sun rises over Cairo, and the city's landmark Tahrir Square is buzzing. Not with traffic, not with commerce, but with protest -- a tent city packed with people rife with anger at a man they blast as a dictatorial president, one who put...Tags: Arab Spring, Shootings, Hosni Mubarak, International Atomic Energy Agency, Prosecution
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Symbol of PA gas drilling opposition succumbs to offer of money
You have to give Denise Dennis some credit. She did not come cheap. The price tag she put on her virtue is about the same as the amount Gov. Tom Corbett took to sell his soul — or Pennsylvania's soul, that is — to the gas drilling robber...Tags: Slavery, Tom Corbett, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Petroleum Industry, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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