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Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution

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The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Women’s Suffrage Amendment, prohibited the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to the citizens of our country on the basis of sex, recognizing the right of women to vote. This amendment was the result of a decades-long movement for women’s suffrage in the United States. The first women’s suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878, but it failed. A new suffrage amendment was ratified Aug. 26, 1920. This amendment allowed twenty-six million women to vote in the 1920 U.S. presidential ...

Now is the time, tomorrow may be too late

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By Mark Wilmoth In her book, No Ordinary Time, author Doris Kearns Goodwin tells about Franklin Roosevelt’s handling of World War II and its effect on Roosevelt at a personal level. Goodwin notes that Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s marriage changed dramatically after Roosevelt admitted to an affair with Eleanor’s personal secretary, Lucy Mercer, in 1918. After that, the Roosevelts were political partners only; their marriage was dead. Later, as WWII progressed, Roosevelt felt the stress and needed the support of his wife, but in 1942, when Franklin asked Eleanor to come to the ...

John Miller, man without a country

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John Miller was bound and left in camp by a Delaware Indian war party. They were headed for Waterford to attack settlers at Fort Frye in March of 1791. John had to warn his friends at Waterford. He had lived with them in the summer of 1790, using his hunting skills to supply wild game for ...

MOV Climate Corner: Yes, WE are the problem

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I’ve been voraciously consuming content on climate change and related phenomena (books, articles, documentaries, lectures, etc.) for at least the last 10 years, with this month being the 10-year anniversary of the founding of Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action (MOVCA). MOVCA is the climate and environmental nonprofit I helped found and have helped lead, which has been submitting climate corner content weekly since March of 2021. As I write, I’ve just finished reading maybe the most important book I’ve ever picked up on climate and related subjects. “The Story of CO2 Is the Story ...

Farmer’s Castle shielded early Belpreans from dangers

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Those establishing Marietta in 1788 felt the need to expand beyond the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. As more people arrived aboard the stream of flatboats coming down the river, new settlements were created to provide homes and farmlands for the growing population. The ...

California engineer wins pumpkin contest with 2,346-pound gourd

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HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — A California engineer and gardening enthusiast won the top prize at an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California after growing a giant jack-o’-lantern gourd weighing 2,346 pounds (1,064 kilograms). Brandon Dawson, of Santa Rosa, California, ...