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- ... that supply-side progressivism is a response to rising costs of housing, healthcare, and other essential goods in the United States?
- ... that All Saints' Episcopal Church contains the crypt of its founder, Episcopal Bishop of Texas George Herbert Kinsolving?
- ... that American Colossus, a history book that describes how a banker bailed out the U.S. government in 1895, was published around a time when the U.S. government bailed out banks?
- ... that at the time, the Battle of Shiloh was the largest battle fought in the United States, with nearly 24,000 casualties?
- ... that Eli N. Evans authored three books about the culture and history of Jews in the American South?
- ... that the 2023 US FIBA Basketball World Cup team is the first American national team of NBA players without an All-NBA player?
- ... that The Red Moon was the first Broadway show to depict alliances between African Americans and Native Americans?
- ... that the San Remo was once described as an "ATM for Democratic presidential campaigns" in the United States?
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Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. In her early legal career, she worked at the law firm Sidley Austin where she met her future husband. She subsequently worked in nonprofits and as the associate dean of Student Services at the University of Chicago. Later she served as vice president for Community and External Affairs of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Michelle married Barack in 1992 and they have two daughters. (Full article...)
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Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.
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Anniversaries for June 10
- 1805 – Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States.
- 1898 – American Marines land on the island of Cuba as part of the Spanish–American War.
- 1928 – Maurice Sendak, best known as the author of the book Where the Wild Things Are, is born.
- 1935 – Dr. Robert Smith and Bill Wilson found Alcoholics Anonymous in Akron, Ohio.
- 1944 – In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall (pictured) of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever to play in a major-league game.
- 2003 – The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. It would land on Mars in January of 2004 and operate though 2010, despite only being expected to operate for 90 days.
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- ... that the Ysleta Mission (pictured) is the oldest parish in the state of Texas, and is built on the oldest continuously cultivated plot of land in the United States?
- ... that during World War I the United States Army recruited over 28,000 soldiers for the Spruce Production Division, which harvested Sitka spruce in the Pacific Northwest?
- ... that the Hall XPTBH, a patrol torpedo bomber, was the only aircraft that ever received three mission designation letters in the U.S. Navy's aircraft designation system?
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