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Readers Respond to the June 2025 Issue
Following the Leader I really look forward to reading the Institutional Knowledge column written by Lonnie G. Bunch III. Secretary Bunch writes on a variety of topics; sometimes about the Smithsonian ...
How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident. I n March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of ...
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Today-History-Jul03
In 1608, Samuel de Champlain established a settlement at Quebec City. He called it Kebec, an Algonquin word meaning "place where the river narrows." Its residents faced countless hardships, including ...
On this 176th anniversary of the emancipation of all the enslaved people in the Virgin Islands, The Daily News is reprinting an excerpt of the speech given by ...