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Widely regarded as one of the most influential of The Founding Fathers, John Adams had a leading role in the adoption of United States Declaration of Independence then went on to become the first Vice President of the United States and the second President of The United States.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122637142852816409.html
NOVEMBER 11, 2008
Soldiers of the Great War
The guns fell silent 90 years ago today. Between the time that the terms of the Armistice were signed in the predawn hours of November 11, 1918 and the moment it came into effect at 11 o’clock that morning, the Western Front registered as many as 11,000 casualties, including [...]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122637288887916473.html
NOVEMBER 11, 2008
‘Tolerance’ Is Not the Lesson of Kristallnacht
Sunday was the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. With some notable exceptions, Europe has opted to mark the occasion by missing its point.
“We must not be silent,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a memorial ceremony in Berlin’s renovated Rykestrasse synagogue, one of [...]
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/constitution.html
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Article. I.
Section. 1.
All legislative [...]
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/decindep.htm
In Congress, July 4, 1776,
THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which [...]
