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On July 9, 1971, paperworkers at Fraser Paper Company, in Madawaska, Maine went on strike. This dramatic strike, an early moment in the unionbusting that would soon destroy American unions, faced strong resistance from workers, including responding to police tear gassing them by throwing rocks...
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World Cup Thread

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On July 7, 2026
I enjoyed that conversation yesterday around the World Cup so let's see what we can glean from the horrors of history for today's matchups. Argentina v. Egypt doesn't exactly provide a lot of material since as far as I know, these two countries have no...
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This is the grave of Henry Laurens Pinckney, Born in 1794 in Charleston, South Carolina, Pinckney was in the most elite family of early South Carolina politics. The Pinckney's dominated the region in the Early Republic. His father was Charles Pinckney, signer of the Constitution,...
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