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October 20: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY


­ON THIS DAY IN 1884, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reporte­d, “Young Mr. [Theodore] Roosevelt, who recently quitted his cattle ranch in Dakota, alighted last Saturday night in the Brooklyn Rink, where he made a speech an hour and a half long in opposition to Governor [Grover] Cleveland. Mr. Horace White, in a neatly turned letter […]

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@Xudozhnikipoeti: Илья Занковский. «В горах. Вид на Арарат». 1894 г.



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Park Slope Food Co-op members face anti-Israel, antisemitic hate


Jewish members of the Park Slope Food Co-op have endured antisemitic and anti-Israel hate amid a campaign to ban Israeli products.

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@Xudozhnikipoeti: Николай Богданов-Бельский. «За книжкой». 1915 г. Ставропольский краевой музей изобразительного искусства.



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@Xudozhnikipoeti: Виктор Борисов-Мусатов. «Изумрудное ожерелье». 1903 г. Государственная Третьяковская галерея. Москва. Россия.



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@Xudozhnikipoeti: — Сшила передничек, чтобы ты и мне уделил внимание. Карикатура из журнала «Крокодил». 1978 г. Художник. В. Шкарбан.



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@mikenov: 7 ‘October Surprises’ That Disrupted US Presidential Elections



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@mikenov: 7 ‘October Surprises’ That Disrupted US Presidential Elections



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7 ‘October Surprises’ That Disrupted US Presidential Elections


Presidential candidates have always understood that in a close election, any big news story in the last weeks of a campaign could be enough to tip the contest in November. Now known as an “October surprise,” the news story might take the form of a scandalous revelation about a candidate, the outbrea