Almanac Items for August 26 2017
Highlights include birthdays for Lee de Forest Albert Sabin Mother Teresa Ben Bradlee Will Shortz Branford Marsalis Melissa McCarthy Macaulay Culkin Chris Pine John Mulaney David Price James Harden and more. Lee de Forest is noted for inventing the Audion tube enabling broadcast radio. The first televised MLB game aired in 1939 with Red Barber. A Mother Teresa quote speaks to making ripples. The current START treaty limits are 1550 strategic nuclear warheads for the US and Russia. The moon phase between Aug 21 and Aug 29 is between new moon and first quarter.
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Lee de Forest
Albert Sabin
Mother Teresa
Ben Bradlee
Will Shortz
Branford Marsalis
Melissa McCarthy
Macaulay Culkin
Chris Pine
John Mulaney
David Price
James Harden
United States
Russia
Reconsidering Confederate Monuments and Civil War Memory
Washington opinion notes that Confederate statues and road names reflect a legacy of white supremacy and political division. It cites Lee's wartime admonitions, Reconstruction gains by the Fordham family in South Carolina, and current debates over renaming roads and removing statues. The piece contrasts urban growth with rural areas and urges removal to museums or scrap heaps.
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Washington
Robert E. Lee
Charlottesville
Virginia
Heather Heyer
Gettysburg
Lee
Orangeburg
South Carolina
South
Maj
John Hammond Fordham
Charleston
Carolina Light Infantry
Orangeburg Times
Democrat
Theodore Roosevelt
Fordham
Old Confederacy
Lyndon Johnson
Dallas
Birmingham
Atlanta
Lee Highway
Utah
Vermont
Robert E
Spike
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Arlington
Pacific
Alexandria
San Diego
Afghanistan a bottomless pit or path to victory?
The piece questions whether the Afghanistan war can be won under President Trump with a shift to a surge like Iraq and demands for Pakistan and India to help. It notes costs, fatalities, and the risk of civilian harm while calling for real reforms and clear success criteria.
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Trump
U.S
Fort Myer
Arlington
Virginia
America
George Washington
al- Qaida
Trump Administration
Pentagon
Afghanistan
George W. Bush
David Petraeus
Pakistan
Obama
India
United States
South Asia
Indo-Pacific
Washington, D.C
al-Qaida
Letters to the Editor Guidelines for The Chronicle Telegram
The Chronicle Telegram outlines letters to the editor rules. Submissions should be 250 words or fewer and may be edited for brevity accuracy and taste. Include signature full home address and telephone number for verification by mail fax or email.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Chronicle- Telegram
Elyria
Chroniclet.com
Ancestors, race and healing through history and memory
A columnist reflects on racial healing through ancestral memory from Nineteenth and Twentieth century America. He recalls Alabama summers with his grandmother and the Till murder in Money, Mississippi, noting ongoing white supremacy and the need to listen. The piece cites Charleston, Charlottesville, and UVA torchlit protests as stark reminders of the nation's failure to live up to equality.
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Elyria
Alabama
Money
Mississippi
Emmitt Till
America
University of Virginia
James M. Jones
Prejudice and Racism Seen Through Personal Lens
Shirley Brown-Reeder, Elyria-born retired English teacher, pens a monthly Elyria bicentennial column on prejudice. She references Yale work by Jones, Dylann Roof, Charlottesville, and Obama era hopes, urging healing from racism’s legacy and calls to remember ancestors Pa Will and Ma Pammy Spencer.
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Shirley Brown-Reeder
Will
Ma Pammy Spencer
Shirley Brown- Reeder
Alabama
Yale
Elyria High School
Jones
Dylann Roof
Charlottesville
Obama
Elyria
Cleveland
Reedersh
Yahoo.com
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Red Barber
Eugene Robinson
Eugenerobinson
Washpost.com
McConnell
Cal Thomas
Tribpub
Shirley Brown
Reeder
Pa Will
Pammy
Edmund Pettus
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