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The people ought to be more indifferently proportioned…

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

From An Agreement of the People, for A firme and present Peace, Upon grounds of common-right and freedome (1647):
I. That the people of England, being at this day very unequally distributed by Counties, Cities, and Boroughs, for the election of their deputies in Parliament, ought to be more indifferently proportioned, according to the number of […]

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in the rubble nearby. The man sang …

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Mr. Phanor had traveled to Haiti to invest in land for an apartment building, and ended up trapped in the ruins of his room on the first floor of the Hotel Montana. He was buried for seven hours, with only one arm free, before members of a United Nations peacekeeping unit dug him out.
During that […]

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