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How things have changed for the worse…

Remember when “school shooters” used to refer to games of cowboys and indians? You probably won’t, not unless you’re over a certain age. Here, this will remind you:

This is a photo taken by a photographer named Arthur Rothstein, at the FSA camp elementary school in Weslaco, TX, back in 1942. Shorpy, everyone’s favorite 100-year-old photo [...]

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Elie Wiesel: biography of a Holocaust survivor

About.com has a biography of Elie Wiesel, the author of “Night”, the best-selling novel about the Holocaust. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for speaking out against violence and oppression. And, he’s Romanian, from my native Transylvania nonetheless!

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