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In 1845, Congress designated the first Tuesday following the first Monday in November as Election Day for presidential elections by federal law. Today, we invite you to explore the history of elections in America with resources from the Gilder Lehrman Institute archives! Go HERE for Voting and Election Laws and History. Election Day resources Why the 1876 election was…

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Congress.gov Congress.gov – the source for U.S. Legislative Information Videos on the Legislative Process Get to Know the New Congress … Right from the Source Free Constitution Ebook for Teachers and Students The Constitution: Student Discovery Set ExternalThis interactive ebook for iPads lets students zoom in on and annotate primary source documents from the drafts and debates…

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By:  Stacey Colino  AARP If you’re omitting a few such personal details at the doctor’s office, you have plenty of company: As many as 81 percent of patients intentionally withhold the truth from their doctors about how often they exercise, what or how much they eat, whether they regularly take a prescription medicine as instructed or if they’ve…

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Morgan Cutolo Updated: Mar. 28, 2022 You’ve most likely had to take a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator test at some point in your life. If you haven’t, here’s a quick summary: The test measures which side you lean more towards in four different areas: Extroversion vs. Introversion, Sensing vs. Intuition, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judging vs. Perceiving. The Myers-Briggs personality types combine…

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Brooke Leigh Howard Updated Aug. 20, 2022 3:54AM ET / Published Aug. 19, 2022 1:07PM ET It was supposed to be a momentous image: The first Black woman on the nation’s highest court, captured in a historic shoot for one of the world’s most distinguished publications. But the end product of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s…

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Welcome to the world’s most awesomely awful places Turkmenistan’s Door to Hell is a giant fire-filled pit in the middle of a barren desert—and it isn’t the only earthly destination that’s been compared to the underworld. Take Italy’s Phlegrean Fields, where “the ground moves, the earth shakes, and scalding, stinking steam rises from hissing fissures.”…

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As the heart stops and we die, the brain is flatlined and nonfunctional. However, using brain electrical monitoring, there is growing evidence that in this state (as people pass away), there are markers of activity (beta, delta, and sometimes gamma waves) that emerge for a very short period. These are ordinarily found when people are having…

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Fowles is a four-time defensive player of the year, a seven-time All-Star, a two-time WNBA champion, the league’s all-time leading rebounder and a member of the 25th-anniversary team. At the end of the 2022 season, Fowles will retire, and the game will say goodbye to one of the best centers in women’s basketball history. (More)…

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Last summer, Risa F. Isard, a research fellow with the Laboratory of Inclusion and Diversity in Sport at the University of Massachusetts, was scrolling through Twitter when a thread by WNBA fan Michael McManus (@getdisdance) caught her eye. The thread was about the media’s centering of 2020 No. 1 overall draft pick Sabrina Ionescu (SI)…

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