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'Firelight' Star On Juvenile Delinquents

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Hernandez | Posted 04.23.2012

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A lot of people know actress Q'Orianka Kilcher from her scene-stealing turn in director Terrence Malick's "The New World" (2005), but what a lot of pe...

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Did Columbus Bring Syphilis to Europe?

The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Syphilis, Columbian Theory, Columbus, Christopher Columbus, Pre-Columbian Theory, Columbian Exchange, Columbus Syphilis, Epidemiology, Archaeology, The New World, Emory University, Science News

When Columbus returned to Europe from his voyage to America, he and his crew brought news that would reshape the world. And according to recent resear...

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Annals of the Overrated: Lady Gaga and The Tree of Life

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.27.2011

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Marshall Fine

Last week I saw Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. Then I saw Lady Gaga on SNL. And I had the same reaction to both: Why are there so many people out there willing to declare this stuff great art?

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Columbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery

Eric Kasum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Peace, Native Americans, Peace, History, Slaves, American History, Slavery, The New World, Knights of Columbus, Holidays, American Indians, 1492, Christopher Columbus, Eric Kasum, Crimes Against Humanity, Roman Catholic Church, Columbus Day, Peacedog, Politics News
Eric Kasum

Why do we honor a man who, if he were alive today, would almost certainly be sitting on Death Row awaiting execution?

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Give Thanks and Please Pass the Drumstick

Patricia Draznin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patricia Draznin

As we approach the 2009 holiday season we pause to give thanks for the blessings of good friends, organic eggnog, and unemployment compensation.

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Reconceiving Columbus Day

Jim Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Thomas

Columbus Day can be an Americas day, plural not possessive, and can honor the original peoples of the hemisphere as it reminds us, its current peoples, that we share more than a land mass, we share a future.

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