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Top 10 Presidential Cars
KickingTiresElection season kicked into high gear last night as the country prepares to peacefully elect a new leader. While everyone is grading the first of three presidential debates from last night and how President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt......Tags: White House, Fiat, Government, Mitt Romney, Los Angeles Times
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The real reason Obama won
Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory is a good place to start for some perspective on the recent presidential election. Within its gray stone walls, the tumultuous 1912 Democratic National Convention played a major scene in the political drama that...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Gerald Ford
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Presidential campaign song quiz
Choose whether each song is on (A) Barack Obama’s campaign Spotify playist, (B) Mitt Romney’s campaign Spotify playlist or (C) Neither. 1. “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow,” The Soggy Bottom Boys 2. “I Won’t Back Down,&...
Tags: James Brown, Rudy Giuliani, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Gerald Ford
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Romney and Ryan build a bridge to the 20th century
The Republican team of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan is less about the future than it is about nostalgia for a past that many Americans imagine was better -- a time when businessmen were free of government meddling and all citizens, even the poor, old or...
Tags: Sociology, Mitt Romney, Culture, U.S. House of Representatives, Elections
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Would you believe mid-August was cool - in 1911?
Sun SentinelAs we sweat through a steamy mid-August, it might be hard to believe the mercury plunged to a refreshing 67 degrees in Miami on Aug. 14, 1911 – when William Howard Taft was president. While that’s not exactly arctic, 67 is about 10 degrees...Tags: Weather Reports, Weather
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When Baltimore was convention central
This summer, the Republican and Democratic parties will hold their presidential nominating conventions in Tampa, Fla., and Charlotte, N.C. In so doing, they will continue a political ritual that began 180 years ago in Baltimore. From their inception in...
Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, White House, Woodrow Wilson, Government, Democratic National Conventions
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Arizona: First-rate journeys in the 48th state
To get a modern-day perspective on the euphoria Arizonans felt on Feb. 14, 1912, when they were granted statehood, try to imagine the Cardinals winning the Super Bowl. Or the Diamondbacks winning the World Series. Or the Suns at long last nailing the...Tags: John McCain, Super Bowl, Arizona Diamondbacks, Jon Kyl, Phoenix Suns
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Having a heat wave
jnatalie-lees@aberdeennews.comAberdeen experienced the warmest March in more than 100 years, according to data from the National Weather Service in Aberdeen. The average temperature was 43.8 degrees, the second warmest March since daily temperature records have been kept. The average...Tags: Weather Statistics, Weather, Winter Solstice
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Banks lost track of their mission, values, RBC exec tells local audience
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comThe root of the Great Recession which began in 2008 in the United States, shriveling up bank accounts and withering cash flow, is simple to banking executive and author John G. Taft. Taft, the great-grandson of the 27th U.S. President William H. Taft and...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Finance, Companies and Corporations, Royal Bank of Canada, Financial and Business Services
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Allan Powell: A fresh look at Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was such a magnetic personality that his life story has been the subject for many authors. Edmund Morris has such a profound and enduring admiration for the former president that he has published his third volume, “Colonel...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, White House, Woodrow Wilson, Washington, DC, Elephant (animal)
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