Almanag Historical Highlights and Birthdays for December 30
Almanac style items note Edwin Hubble's 1924 revelatory discovery, RCA price for color TV in 1953, and Tropical Storm Zeta spanning two years in 2005. Includes notable birthdays Rudyard Kipling and LeBron James, plus sports milestone from 1936 and a Kipling quote.
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RCA
Zeta
Alice
Rudyard Kipling
Sandy Koufax
Patti Smith
Matt Lauer
Heidi Fleiss
Tiger Woods
Eliza Dushku
LeBron James
Long Island University
Stanford
United States
Castle Rock
U.S
Edgar Springs
New Orleans Almost Sings Despite City Hall Chaos
New Orleans shone with Saints fans over the Christmas weekend as a city still rebuilding from Katrina faces clashes over cutbacks and a corrupt-prone past. Saints victory, tourism buzz, and green rebuilding plans coexist with investigations and delayed infrastructure projects.
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New Orleans
Superdome
Ray Nagin
City Hall
Orleans Parish
Times-Picayune
Jefferson Parish
Housing Authority Section 8
WhoDat Nation
Dallas Cowboys
Saints
Jeff Duncan
St. Charles Avenue
Texas
French Quarter
Bourbon Street
Canal Street
Cafe du Monde
Jackson Square
Middle Tennessee
Mississippi
The Pink Lady Revisits a Century of Female Political Strife
Sally Denton’s profile of Helen Gahagan Douglas traces how a heroic California congresswoman faced brutal gendered attacks in 1950 against Richard Nixon. The piece links Douglas’s battles to later episodes involving Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, noting Murray Chotiner’s role and the enduring trope of female candidates facing sexism.
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Sarah Palin
Palin
Douglas
Melvyn Douglas
Hollywood
California
Los Angeles
Sunset Boulevard
Congress
Richard Nixon
U.S. Senate
Nixon
Pink Lady
Murray Chotiner
Machiavelli
Karl Rove
Fawn Brodie
Pat
Henry Kissinger
Truman
Chotiner
Pat Nixon
Hillary Clinton
Clinton
Rush Limbaugh
Limbaugh
Beltway Boys
Washington
Sally Denton
the Pink Lady
Helen Gahagan Douglas
How to stop terrorists from entering the country
Cal Thomas argues for a shift from viewing terrorists as criminals to treating them as soldiers. He cites Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed bombing on a Christmas Day flight and criticizes intelligence, screening, and profiling. The piece advocates stronger security measures and broader domestic counterterrorism efforts.
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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Abdulmutallab
Mis
Britain
London Times
United States
State Department
Detroit
Department of Homeland Security
America
Yemen
Obama
Coolidge
New York
Chicago
Fort Hood
Texas
U.S
Clinton
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Justice Department
Wayne Curtis
Branford Marsalis
Harry Connick Jr
Barnes & Noble
Leonard Riggio
Curtis
Brad Pitt
Benjamin Button
Louisiana
Linda P. Campbell
The
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
W. 7Th Street
Fort Worth
Kampbell
Star-Telegram.com
Cal Thomas
Tribune Media Services
Kenmore Ave
Buffalo
N.Y
Tribune.com
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