America is Going Through Its Every-80-Year Reinvention

Click Here to Read:  America is Going Through Its Every-80-Year Reinvention: Americans have gone through three historic junctures like what we’re witnessing today – and they happen on an uncanny 80-year cycle by Peter Leyden on his The Great Progression Substack on April 1, 2025.

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Click Here to Read: Isaac Abarbanel: This medieval Bible commentator and royal financier spent much of his later years on the run By My Jewish Learning.

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Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest

Click Here to Read: Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest:  Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards By Mac Margolis in Rio de Janeiro and Belém, Brazil  on the Guardian website on  February 6, 2025.

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Cecile Richards, a Dynamic Leader of Planned Parenthood, Dies at 67

Click Here to Read: Cecile Richards, a Dynamic Leader of Planned Parenthood, Dies at 67: She oversaw the United States’ largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education from 2006 to 2018 by By Penelope Green and Remy Tumin in the New York Times on January 20, 2025. 

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