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French’s 5 | June 2022
This month: Five surprising (or maybe not if you are very patriotic) facts about the Fourth of July, the most celebrated day in America.
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In reality, over 6 million were murdered | Duly Noted
The McMinn County School Board in Tennessee voted unanimously to remove Maus — a nearly perfect fictionalized depiction of the horrors of the Holocaust — from its 8th grade curriculum.
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French’s 5 | February 2022
This month: French Davis shares five notable Colorado events in history that happened in the month of March.
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French’s 5 | October 2021
This month: Five big events that happened on Halloween in history, from as early as 1864 to as recent as 1993.
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The Myth of the Lafayette Vampire: Stakes and All
In an unsuspecting municipal cemetery in Lafayette lies the vampire Todor Glava, a coal miner who died in 1918 from influenza. Are you scared yet?
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Natural Hair Survives Colonization: Resistance, Business, and the CROWN Act
For centuries, specifically White Western European-descended Americans have held the reins on what are considered acceptable hairstyles for the people it has colonized and/or subsumed under its empire. It has taken all that time, up until very recently, to begin…
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Spotlight on Colorado Jazz History
This month's Spotlight is a departure from our usual focus on a person or band, but Colorado's jazz scene at large is as deserving.
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A Sheep, A Duck, and A Rooster Climb Into a Balloon | Summer Sports
Here’s one that doesn’t come to mind for most people, though it’s on numerous bucket lists and is almost universally unrecognized as an extreme sport: hot air ballooning.
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Origins and Dissemination of Cannabis Throughout the World: A Brief History
The cannabis plant has been used by humans for thousands, possibly tens of thousands of years.
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Faces of Summer: Black Lives Matter Edition
In the end, a destination we haven’t reached and I’m not sure we ever will, history will remember this year, and these protests, in the same ways that history remembers the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.…
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