Notable historical milestones from August and beyond
Key events include Hawaii becoming the 50th state on August 21 1959 after Eisenhower signed the order, Galileo's telescope demonstrations in 1609 atop Venice's Campanile, Fulton’s North River Steamboat voyage in 1807, Nat Turner’s 1831 Virginia rebellion, Lincoln Douglas debates beginning 1858, the Mona Lisa theft in 1911. The item lists diverse historic moments with dates and places.
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Hawaii
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Galileo Galilei
Venice
Robert Fulton
Albany
New York
Nat Turner
Virginia
Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Leonardo da Vinci
Louvre Museum
Paris
Italy
Obama pitches plan amid liberal and conservative voices
President Obama promoted his health care strategy to both conservatives and liberals while denying a hard deadline on a government option. A new Science study urges vaccinating schoolchildren and their parents yearly to shield vulnerable populations by creating a cocoon against flu spread.
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Barack Obama
Bucklin
Obama
White House
Washington
Science
Kennedy seeks to change succession law in Massachusetts
Senator Edward Kennedy backs altering Massachusetts rules to allow Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint an interim senator if he cannot finish his term. Current law requires an election within 145 to 160 days, risking a period without Senate representation and possible impact on health care votes.
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Sen
Edward Kennedy
Congress
Kennedy
Massachusetts
Deval Patrick
Barack Obama
Senate
Senate Democrats
Ridge ties politics to terror alerts before 2004 vote
Ex Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge says in a new book he was pressured by Cabinet members to raise the national terror alert level ahead of the 2004 election. He refused amid urging from Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft, and the level remained unchanged. Ridge resigned November 30, 2004. Frances Townsend denies political influence on alert levels.
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Homeland Security
Tom Ridge
George W. Bush
Ridge
Defense
Donald H. Rumsfeld
John Ashcroft
Bush
Frances Townsend
Afghan presidential vote draws mixed turnout amid violence
Afghan voters faced threats as turnout lagged in Taliban strongholds while many still queued to vote. Officials counted ballots after polls closed with 6,202 centers operating and preliminary estimates suggesting 40 to 50 percent of 15 million registered voters cast ballots.
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Kasul
Hamid Karzai
Zekiia Barakzai
Associated Press
Shukran Ahmad
Kabul
Barakzai
U.N
Kai Eide
NATO
Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
Iran
Ex-reporter Jayson Blair becomes life coach in Virginia
Jayson Blair, the former New York Times reporter embroiled in plagiarism and fabrication scandals, now works as a certified life coach in Ashburn, Virginia. He leads a bipolar support group, counsels corporate executives, and says his past helps clients relate, with openness about his substance abuse history guiding his empathetic approach.
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Jayson Blair
McLean
Blair
New York Times
The
Times
Virginia
Michael Oberschneider
Jayson
Oberschneider
Ashburn Psychological Services
Centreville
Dulles
Journal-World contact directory and newsroom numbers
A compact listing of newsroom departments and external contacts for the Journal-World in Lawrence Kansas. It includes phone numbers for Local news City government County government Kansas University Lawrence schools Consumer affairs Sports Arts and entertainment Letters to the editor Obituaries Health Transportation Photo reprints and Outside Lawrence. It also lists editors directors and email addresses plus subscription and delivery help.
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China
Wugang
Wenping
Hunan
Environmental Protection Bureau
Xinhua
Jworld.com
Kansas University
Lawrence
Poll asks price for courtside seat at Allen Fieldhouse
The Kansas University basketball poll asks readers if they would pay $15,000 for a courtside seat for the 2009-10 season at Allen Fieldhouse. It also asks how important U.S. News & World Report college rankings are, with results shown as not important 54 percent, somewhat important 29 percent, very important 11 percent, and not sure A percent. Readers are directed to LJWorld.com to view more responses and vote.
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Allen Fieldhouse
Kansas University
U.S. News & World Report
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Washington, D.C
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David Paterson
Richard Raviteh
Court of Appeals
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Bill Churns
Bill
U.S
Eric Blake
National Hurricane Center
Beijing
DHS
Karzai
Abdullah Abdullah
Saleh Mohammad Registani
Ramazan Bashardost
Abdullah
Julie Jacobson
Mohammad Hasan Haidari
Afghan National Army
Afghan National Police
Dahaneh
Now Zad
Helmand
Journal-World
N.H
Dennis Anderson
Danderson
Liworld
Caroline Trowbridge
Drowbridge
Ljworld
Ann Gardner
Agardner
Tom Keegan
Tkeegan
Jon Niccum
Jniccum
Terry Rombeck
Trombeck
Jonathan Kealing
Jkealing
News Partners
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Howard
Sunflowerbroadband
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Dcox
Ljjworld
Chris Bell
Jworld
Tony Berg
Ljworld.com
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Today’s Poll
Kansas
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Ljuworld.com
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