Thursday, January 31, 2019

A review of Ken Burns’ “Jackie Robinson” (PBS)

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“ ♪ Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball? It went zoomin 'cross the left field wall. Yeah boy, yes, yes. Jackie hits that ball....
Monday, January 28, 2019

Reading about the trial of Socrates in the original Greek

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates at his trial, as recorded by Plato's “Apology” Before beginning this project...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

The “Fundamental Orders of Connecticut” may be the world’s first written constitution

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“I pass over the constitutions of Rhode Island and Connecticut , because they were formed prior to the Revolution , and even before the pr...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

The British Parliament was the main model for the United States Congress

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“It will be the business of this chapter to consider the British parliament ; in which the legislative power, and (of course) the supreme ...

5 surprising ways that the Congress was modeled on the British Parliament

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“... in the main the constitution of parliament , as it now stands, was marked out so long ago as the seventeenth year of king John, A. D....
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

A review of PBS's “Citizen King” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but b...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

How fractions are used in the United States Constitution

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One of the most well-known clauses in the original Constitution was known as the “Three-Fifths Clause.” This name comes from a fraction i...