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Regardless of your political beliefs or your thoughts on the current U.S. administration's plans for the...
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Everyone dreams of a brighter future for children. Anne MacPherson, a Scottish Evangelical Quaker who...
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It was the final days of World War Two in Europe. Hitler had committed suicide, and the German generals...
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