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Tea Party movement

A Tea Party rally in Sacramento, California, September 12, 2010.

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Tea Party movement, conservative populist social and political movement that emerged in 2009 in the United States, generally opposing excessive…

tea. tea production. Camellia. Dried tea leaves in tea bag from tea plantation seeping in hot water in clear cup of tea. mug of tea. Camellia sinensis

Trivia with a Capital “Tea”: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Tea

Lucy Burns Speaking in from of a group of people. American Suffragist. Womens Rights. ca. 1910-1915

Women’s History: Nineteenth Amendment and Women’s Suffrage

Who was Ernest Shackleton?

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton.

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Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who attempted to reach the South Pole. Educated at Dulwich College (1887–90), Shackleton…

Illustrations of Clowns

Clowning Around

coffee beans, ground coffee, cup of coffee

Know Your Joe: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Coffee

Giant portrait of late Chinese chairman Mao Zedong hung over the Forbidden City. Imperial palace complex at the heart of Beijing (Peking), China. Palace Museum, north of Tiananmen Square. UNESCO World Heritage site.

Behind the Scenes: 7 Historical Figures in Beatles Lyrics

Fidel Castro arrives MATS Terminal, Washington, D.C.

Ernest Hemingway with pigeons, Venice, Italy, 1954. Ernest Hemingway American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

10 Chicago Writers

LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 10: Singer Beyonce, winner Best Traditional R&B Performance for 'Love on Top', poses in the press room at the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on February 10, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

Common egret (Egretta alba).

Egret, any member of several species of herons (family Ardeidae, order Ciconiiformes), especially members of the genus Egretta. Most egrets…

“The real leader has no need to lead—he is content to point the way.”

Sir Francis Galton, detail of an oil painting by G. Graef, 1882; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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Eugenics, the selection of desired heritable characteristics in order to improve future generations, typically in reference to humans. The term eugenics…

Guardians of History

Advocacy for Animals

Youth Climate Movement Puts Ethics at the Center of the Global Debate

The kids are clearly leading on climate change â and theyâre changing the way we talk about this global challenge, putting ethics at the center of the debate.

Alain Elkann Interviews

Alain has been writing a weekly interview column for the Italian newspaper La Stampa since 1989. His interviews celebrate some of the best known and successful personalities of the present day.

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