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13 hours ago · John Cabell Breckinridge (January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875) was an American lawyer, politician, and soldier. He represented Kentucky in both houses of Congress and became the 14th and youngest-ever vice president of the United States.
13 hours ago · Madison Pacini stepped away from softball after 2020 to focus on academics. Now pursuing her second master's degree, she's living out a dream in her return to the field with UCLA.
13 hours ago · Jefferson included in the Thomas Jefferson’s Scrapbooks: Poems of Nation, Family, & Romantic Love Collected by America’s Third President a poem from the Great Learning, about the Chinese prince of Guey from the province of Honang whom he regards as a paradigmatically virtuous political leader that practices harmony and benevolence. James ...
13 hours ago · Episode 427 Not sure how there's been a drop in the TBR this week given that I'm in a mini reading slump, but somehow it's down by a massive 3 to 141! Here are a few more I'll be diving into soon...
13 hours ago · Origin of the name Eric Foner wrote that the term "was perhaps first used by a Washington newspaper in 1839, quoting a young slave hoping to escape bondage via a railroad that 'went underground all the way to Boston'". Dr. Robert Clemens Smedley wrote that following slave catchers' failed searches and lost traces of fugitives as far north as Columbia, Pennsylvania, they declared in ...
