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Robert Redford to Revisit Watergate
With New TV Doc Deadline Actor-director Robert Redford will revisit the Watergate scandal, the subject of his 1976 film “All The President’s Men,” with a retrospective documentary from his new company Sundance Productions, reports Deadline.com. The two-hour documentary, “All The President’s Men Revisited,” will be broadcast on Discovery Channel worldwide. The project marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark conspiracy that took down the administration of President Richard M. Nixon. Redford, who played Bob Woodward in “All the President’s Men” opposite Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein, will narrate the documentary. The 1976 feature film was directed by Alan J. Pakula. In a statement, Redford said: “Unique and artful stories have…
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History of the Typewriter
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U.S. Constitution Ratified
Jun 21, 1788: New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land. By 1786, defects in the post-Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce. Congress endorsed a plan to draft a new constitution, and on May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention convened at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. On September 17, 1787, after three months of debate moderated by convention president George Washington, the new U.S. constitution, which created a strong federal government with an intricate system of checks and balances, was…
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Rosenberg Tragedy
The Rosenberg tragedy—The cost of not coming clean September 19, 2008 Written by Aaron Finestone Original Blog Something is to be said for confessing. Example—The Rosenbergs. In 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for conspiring to commit espionage. The Government contended that they stole the secret to the Atom Bomb and sent it to the Soviet Union. The Rosenbergs maintained their innocence to the end, refusing to squeal. As a result, their two sons were turned into orphans. The case festered for years. There were world-wide protests. There were accusations of a frame-up. For Communists, it was the gold opportunity to trash America. During the mid-1970′s, when I was…
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Who Won the War of 1812
Along the U.S.-Canadian Border, Skirmishes Persist Over War of 1812 200 Years Later, Both Sides Feel Like Winners; Dueling Celebrations at Forts By ALISTAIR MACDONALD Read Story Online at the WSJ FORT GEORGE, Ontario—As Canadian Dan Laroche, dressed as a British redcoat, fired a musket and regaled his audience here with tales of panicked American surrender, Marie DeVita, from Brooklyn, N.Y., turned to friends with a question: “Wait a minute, didn’t we win the War of 1812?” Two hundred years ago Monday, the U.S. officially declared war on Britain, starting a two-year conflict that became known as the War of 1812. Two centuries on, skirmishes continue across the Niagara River…