Get to know the Lehigh Valley immigrant who signed the Declaration of Independence
George Taylor, one of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, spent most of his life in the Lehigh Valley ...
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Paris AI Summit: RSF releases seven recommendations to ensure AI declaration translates into concrete action
The final declaration of the Paris AI Action Summit, titled “Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for People and the Planet” was signed by 62 signatories. Reporters Without ...
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Rare Declaration of Independence sold at Christie’s for $2.47 million
According to Harvard University, about 200 copies of the original Declaration of Independence were produced in 1776. Only about two dozen remain. In New York, a new copy from the times of the Founding ...
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Charleston has welcomed many sitting U.S. presidents through the years. Here’s a look back at some of those visits
Though Charleston sits more than 500 miles from the political epicenter of Washington, D.C., it is no stranger to the ...
George has his day, and so does Abe. But states honor US presidents in lots of ways
In Alabama, Washington shares the spotlight with friend-turned-rival Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president and ...
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On This Day: David Ben-Gurion won Israel's first election
The Declaration of Independence initially mandated that ... the Constituent Assembly was renamed Israel's First Knesset. Despite its original mission, the Knesset was unable to agree on a ...
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‘The majority of the Greenlandic population wants independence’
He has long said he wants to buy the vast, semi-autonomous icy island that is part of Denmark, rich in untapped mineral ...
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Celebrating July 4th
signed the Declaration of Independence. It is said that John Hancock's signed his name "with a great flourish" so England's "King George can read that without spectacles!" Today, the original copy ...
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'American Revolution' is a new Ken Burns documentary coming out this year. Here's when
"The filmmakers and PBS scheduled the broadcast for 2025, the 250th anniversary of the start of the war, which began in the spring of 1775, more than a year before the Declaration of Independence ...
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The Wars of Independence
Of the two original claimants ... appealed to the papacy with the now famous statement of Scottish independence, the Declaration of Arbroath – all to no avail. The recognition they sought ...
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How Does the American Dream Influence the U.S. Economy?
Lynne Gilbert / Getty Images The notion of the American Dream was invented by the founders of the United States and was initially captured by language in the Declaration of Independence.