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Tag: Thanksgiving

  • Prof Patty
  • November 24, 2020November 5, 2025

What Do You Know About Christmas? and Thanksgiving?

Beside being the day when the birth of Jesus is celebrated, what do you know about Christmas? Here are some resources to find out the REAL deal about the ubiquitous holiday. The History of the Chri

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  • Prof Patty
  • November 21, 2020

CDC recommends against Thanksgiving travel amid surge of coronavirus cases

Brittany Shammas November 19, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. EST With Thanksgiving a week away and coronavirus cases exploding nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday re

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 20, 2020October 20, 2020

Unusual Symptoms of COVID-19 You Need to Know About

From nose to toes, doctors continue to discover uncommon signs of coronavirus infection by Rachel Nania, AARP, Updated October 9, 2020  Fever, cough and shortness of breath are not the on

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 20, 2020

The Invention of Thanksgiving

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NY Times

  • Combative, Defensive and Occasionally Contrite, Kennedy Walks a Fine Line
  • Navy Secretary John Phelan Is Leaving the Pentagon and the Trump Administration
  • Not a Deal-Breaker: White House Downplays Iranian Action Near the Strait
  • D4vd Murder Case: Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s Cause of Death Is Revealed
  • Kalshi Fines and Suspends 3 Political Candidates for Betting on Their Races

NPR

  • Instead of civil war, a naked mole rat colony changed queens peacefully
  • A mine despoiled the beauty of the rainforest. This Goldman Prize winner took action
  • The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
  • Photos: How overfishing in Southeast Asia is an ecological and human crisis
  • How a Japanese poet's diary helps scientists reconstruct solar cycles

The Progressive

  • Trump’s Vision for the Homeless Is Already Here
  • West Bank Children Forced from Classrooms As Israel Weaponizes Tax Revenue
  • From Classroom to Rubble
  • No Place Like Home
  • Trump’s High Gas Prices Are No Accident

FactCheck.org

  • We Won a Webby People’s Voice Award
  • What Do We Know About ‘Birth Tourism’?
  • Elon Musk Amplifies Baseless Claim About COVID-19 Vaccine
  • An Attack Over ICE in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate Race
  • Politicians Say Glyphosate Weedkiller Causes Cancer But Evidence Not Clear-Cut

Snopes.com

  • Unpacking claim US Army 'nuclear chief' Andrew Hugg revealed secrets to undercover reporter
  • Sen. Chris Murphy wrote 'awesome' in response to Iranian ships evading US blockade. Here's context
  • Was Trump blocked from using nuclear codes against Iran? Not so fast
  • Investigating claim Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán used taxpayer money to fund CPAC
  • Trump may require banks to collect citizenship information, credible reports say

Tradeoffs

  • Should People Who Want GLP-1s Have to Work for Them?
  • High Health Care Costs Are Fueling a New Fight Over Old Laws
  • Trump's Pick to Quiet the Chaos at HHS
  • Generic Drugs Head to the Supreme Court
  • Inside the Urgent Care Boom

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