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Major Rwandan coltan exporter bought smuggled minerals, a UN report says
Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from rebel-held areas of neighboring Congo, helping fund an ...
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Major Rwandan coltan exporter bought smuggled Congolese minerals, UN report says
By Reade Levinson, David Lewis and Sonia Rolley , REUTERS -Rwandan company Boss Mining Solution bought minerals smuggled from ...
A year before declaring independence, colonists offered 'Olive Branch' petition to King George III
Millions of protesters have denounced President Donald Trump as a would-be autocrat and marched under the banner “No Kings.” ...
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'Mad King': Analyst says Trump is racking up offenses that caused a rebellion
Mother Jones Washington bureau chief and analyst David Corn ticked down a list of similarities between the infractions of President Donald Trump and the abuses of King George III that drove U.S.
Loxahatchee Seminole battlefield important, if uncomfortable, part of U.S., Florida history
The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...
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The war of the rebellion: a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies
cf. General index, p. xl. Series 2, v. 1 [serial no. 114] with imprint 1894, was not issued until 1898 Edited in the War Records Office, 1880-July 1899; in the Record and Pension Office, July ...
A volunteer finds the Holy Grail of abolitionist-era Baptist documents in Massachusetts
A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...