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Armed with sex appeal, the ability to attract a crowd and a knack for sparking plenty of conversation, she's riding high right now. He's considered a rock star, someone that exudes confidence and can command a room. It's Sarah Palin and Barack Obama.  

A CIGAR smoked by Winston Churchill as he drew up plans to invade German-occupied Europe in 1943 has been valued at £800 on TV's Antiques Roadshow. Christian Williams, 33, was given the amazing keepsake as a boy by his grandad Ronald. The ex soldier acted as butler to the World War II PM and Allied leaders including US President Franklin D Roosevelt and France's Charles de Gaulle at a historic meeting in Casablanca.  

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Today is Saturday, November 28, the 332nd day of 2009. There are 33 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:  

As we approach the 68th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, the curators at a local museum have decided to honor thousands of Japanese Americans who were forced from their homes under an order from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The exhibit, at the Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum, explores the temporary assembly center at Santa Anita Race track which was used for the detention of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II. The events that took plac

When we are dealing with the Caucasian race we have methods that will test the loyalty of them. But when we deal with the Japanese, we are on an entirely different field.   -Earl Warren

 

A time of Thanksgiving has been a part of our culture for hundreds of years, but the nationally recognized holiday was not made official until 1939. For many of us, Thanksgiving is remembered by its humble beginnings in colonial America, when the Native Americans helped puritan settlers survive in the new world by showing them how to live off of the land. A large meal was shared by the Wampanoag Indians and Puritan settlers before the winter.  

If anyone thinks actions taken by the present administration and Congress have anything to do with improving the economy and health care, they should think again. This is about power. There are many who still believe Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal brought America out of the Great Depression; in fact, he prolonged it.  

In 1932, according to John T. Flynn, there were no federal "subsidies to farmers, … handouts to the indigent, [or] support [for] schools." The federal government did not "build hospitals [or] provide medical care." [1] And though it did undertake national defense, it did so much more cheaply than Americans of today are accustomed to seeing. "The U.S. had the sixteenth largest army in the world" in 1932, William Manchester reports, "putting it behind, among others, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Spain, Romani

The U.S. had the sixteenth largest army in the world   -William Manchester

 

President Barack Obama signed a law last Friday that could provide checks to 7,000 Oklahomans. Some area residents aren't sure that's such a good idea. While much of the nation is embroiled in the national healthcare debate, unemployment rates have reached double digits, and millions of people have exhausted unemployment benefits.