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  U.S. airman missing in France since 1944 now accounted-for after remains analyzed

  NBC News - By Patrick Smith

  "A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for," the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said of the World War II-era airman. The remains of an American airman who was listed as unaccounted-for after his plane was shot down over France during World War II have been …

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  Sharpeville: new research on 1960 South African massacre shows the number of dead and injured was massively undercounted

  theconversation.com - Nancy L Clark and William H. Worger

  On 21 March 1960 at 1.40 in the afternoon, apartheid South Africa’s police opened fire on a peaceful crowd of about 4,000 residents of Sharpeville, …

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  Eerie Echoes Of The Era Preceding World War II

  Forbes

  The ugly outbreaks of antisemitism around the world since October 7 are a frightening warning of the firestorms to come—if we don’t pull ourselves together. Not since the 1930s, during the lead up to World War II, has there been as much open antisemitism as there has been in the aftermath of the …

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  This Black Woman Architect Broke Barriers In A Field Dominated By White Men Well Before The Civil Rights Movement | Essence

  Essence - Malaika Jabali

  A new book from MIT Press tells the trailblazing story of Black female architect, educator, and artist Amaza Lee Meredith and her role in shaping the …

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  FDR Spent Thanksgiving Hosting Polio Patients, Not Raging at Enemies

  politizoom.com - Dino Durrati

  Thanks on this Thanksgiving to Presidential historian Michael Beschloss who treated me with the above photo, which I had not seen before, of …

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  60 years after JFK's death, today's Kennedys choose other paths to public service

  Associated Press - HILLEL ITALIE

  NEW YORK (AP) — Patrick Kennedy, son of Sen. Ted Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, remembers being a young state legislator in Rhode Island some 30 years ago and hearing encouraging words from the opposition leader at the time. “I just want you to know that no matter what you do, …