AUGUST 4, 2020
Attorney General William Barr announced the Justice Department is awarding more than $35 million in housing assistance grants for human trafficking victims during a roundtable with victims and advocates. Ivanka Trump, along with oth ...
Posted Thursday, August 6th 2020 at 12:17AM
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Published on Jun 5, 2020
One painting can open many doors. Giovanni di Paolo’s emotional and expressive devotional paintings display both the precious elegance of the Sienese tradition, and the artist’s inventive, intense story-telling ability. In ...
Posted Saturday, July 25th 2020 at 5:47PM
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Published on Jul 20, 2020
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By Patrick Goodenough | July 17, 2020 | 4:22am EDT
(CNSNews.com) – Attorney General Bill Barr prefaced a major speech on China Thursday by expressing the hope the Chinese Communist Party would judge his effort “despicable,” after a recent speech b ...
Posted Sunday, July 19th 2020 at 3:22AM
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Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them. 2 And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still alive; 3 but bet ...
Posted Saturday, July 18th 2020 at 2:31PM
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Posted Friday, July 17th 2020 at 4:26PM
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Ms. Weiss recently came under fire for online comments on the staff unrest that followed the publication of a Times Op-Ed piece by Senator Tom Cotton calling for a military response to civic unrest in American cities during the widespread protests ag ...
Posted Tuesday, July 14th 2020 at 9:59PM
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Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the p ...
Posted Thursday, July 9th 2020 at 9:46AM
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Due to COVID-19, only 200 guests were allowed inside the sanctuary, which was marked for social distancing. Notable guests included Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Former Mayor Kasim Reed, Rev. Bernice King, former Georgia Democratic gubernatoria ...
Posted Wednesday, July 8th 2020 at 7:43AM
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Senate Session
The Senate voted to formally begin debate on the fiscal year 2021 Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual defense programs and policy bill.
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Posted Friday, July 3rd 2020 at 10:52AM
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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany held a briefing with reporters. She was asked about the reports that Russia offered bounties for the lives of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan as well as President Trump’s tweets concerning the Black LIves Mat ...
Posted Thursday, July 2nd 2020 at 12:07AM
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Rudy Giuliani speaks to reporters in the White House driveway. He criticizes the New York Times for reporting on the Russian bounties story, calls Black Lives Matter a Marxist organization, and questions Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities.
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Posted Wednesday, July 1st 2020 at 2:30PM
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During the reign of Chingli 慶曆 (Qìnglì), 1041–1048, Bi Sheng, a man of unofficial position, made movable type. His method was as follows: he took sticky clay and cut in its characters as thin as the edge of a coin. Each character formed ...
Posted Friday, June 26th 2020 at 4:56PM
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JUNE 24, 2020
Senate Democratic Press Briefing on Police Reform
Following a failed Senate procedural vote on police reform legislation, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other Senate Democrats spoke to reporters. Sena ...
Posted Wednesday, June 24th 2020 at 5:18PM
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Beginning in 742, Eurasia entered a 13-year period of major political turmoil, with the regional empires generally suffering "a major rebellion, revolution, or dynastic change." In this year the Second Turkic Khaganate of the eastern Eurasian Step ...
Posted Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 at 10:10PM
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INTRODUCTION
Short for Stem-Branch or Gan-Zhi, the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches are the most important counting system in the Chinese calendar. There are 10 Stems and 12 Branches.
The Ten Heavenly Stems are Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Gen ...
Posted Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 at 4:30PM
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June 11, 2020
First day of in-person, on-campus instruction will be August 24, 2020
West Chester University President Christopher Fiorentino released a message today announcing that WCU will reopen on time for the fall 2020 semester on August 2 ...
Posted Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 at 3:12PM
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Introduction
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At one time the Buddha was in Rajagriha, staying on Mount Gridhrakuta. Accompanying him were a multitude of leading monks numbering twelve thousand persons. All were arhats whose outflows had come to an end, w ...
Posted Saturday, June 13th 2020 at 1:04AM
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Gridhrakūta ［耆闍崛山・霊鷲山］ (; Pali Gijjhakūta; Gishakussen or Ryōju-sen): The Sanskrit name for Eagle Peak near Rājagriha, the capital of Magadha i ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2020 at 8:03PM
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Rājagriha ［王舎城］ (; Pali Rājagaha; Ōsha-jō): The capital of the kingdom of Magadha in ancient India. One of the largest cities in India in Shakyamuni’s time, it was a center of cu ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2020 at 4:47PM
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Published on Jun 9, 2020
New details are emerging in the story of Martin Gugino suggesting he was an anarchist and a possible member of radical left-wing groups like Antifa. Even other protesters that day said they thought he was trying to provoke t ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2020 at 11:33AM
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