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Christy Coleman, CEO of the American Civil War Museum, will be the featured speaker at Washington and Lee University’s Founders Day/Omicron Delta Kappa Convocation at 5 p.m. on Jan. 22 in Lee Chapel.
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BackStory, an American history podcast produced by Virginia Humanities, releases “When You Just Want to be Alone: The History of Solitude in America.”
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Singapore is an island city-state and the smallest country in Southeast Asia. Its name comes from 2 words from the Malay language put together: singa which means lion and pura, which means city.
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Chris Graham and Rod Mullins discuss the latest news in the world of NASCAR, with Daytona on the horizon in a few weeks.
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The Virginia General Assembly convened for its annual session at noon Wednesday. The opening session will no doubt note that a form of representative government first met at the church at Jamestown 400 years year ago.
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Longtime Staunton resident and public servant John Avoli will seek the Republican nomination for the House District 20 seat in the Virginia House of Delegates.
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BackStory, an American history podcast produced by Virginia Humanities, releases “Finding Americana: The History of Four Unique Events and Places.”
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Nikki Giovanni, a world-renowned poet, writer, commentator and activist, will present “An Evening of Poetry, Love and Enlightenment” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, in Cole Hall, as part of Bridgewater College’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day observance.
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About five weeks ago, the once proud and independent British newspaper, The Guardian stooped over and published a yellow journalistic screed by an agent of the Iranian regime, Arron Reza Merat.
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The year 1619 does not loom as large in American memory as some others. When thinking of those early times of English settlement in North America, 1607, the year Jamestown was founded, and 1620, when the Pilgrims landed in what is now Massachusetts, are more likely to come to mind.
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