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The free world cared profoundly about names like Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov and Sharansky in the Soviet Union, or Biermann, Havel and Walesa in the captive states of Central Europe. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: The free world cared profoundly about names like Solzhenitsyn Sakharov and Sharansky in the Soviet Union or Biermann Havel and Walesa in the captive s...

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7 months ago
During Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, he pushed for it to be dismantled. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: During Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign he pushed for it to be dismantled

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Republicans have historically pushed against centralising education policy, believing that it is best left up to individual states and localities. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Republicans have historically pushed against centralizing education policy believing that it is best left up to individual states and localities

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Conservatives, though, have long sought to eliminate the department, almost from the moment it was established in 1979. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Conservatives have long sought to eliminate the department almost from the moment it was established in 1979

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The Department of Education opened its doors in 1980. 1.000

👤 Marty West 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Education

Simplified: The Department of Education opened its doors in 1980.

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The Department of Education was not created until the Carter administration. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Education

Simplified: Department of Education was not created until Carter administration

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The US government has been involved in public education since the 1800s. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Education

Simplified: US government has been involved in public education since 1800s

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This is bigger than Watergate. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: This is bigger than Watergate

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Sheean's account of the 1920s illustrates the conflict's deep root system in the land that Israelis and Palestinians both want and have not found a way, or a will, to share or separate. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Conflict , History

Simplified: Sheean's account illustrates the conflict's deep roots in the land

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The blood libel is a notorious antisemitic trope that goes back to medieval Europe, falsely accusing Jews of killing Christians, especially children, to use their blood in religious rituals. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Antisemitism

Simplified: Blood libel is an antisemitic trope falsely accusing Jews of killing Christians

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By 1929 Vincent Sheean, an American journalist, was describing Jerusalem in a way that is grimly familiar to reporters there almost a century later. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Journalism

Simplified: By 1929 Vincent Sheean described Jerusalem in a way familiar to reporters

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But Netanyahu, and many other Israelis and their supporters abroad connected the October attacks to the centuries of persecution Jews suffered in Europe, which culminated with Nazi Germany killing six... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Netanyahu connected October attacks to centuries of persecution of Jews in Europe

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Over three days, Christian mobs murdered 49 Jews and raped at least 600 Jewish women. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Violence

Simplified: Christian mobs murdered 49 Jews and raped at least 600 Jewish women over three days

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Bialik wrote it as a young man in 1903, after he had visited the scene of a pogrom against Jews in Kishinev, a town then in imperial Russia and now called Chişinǎu, the capital of present-day Moldova. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Culture , History

Simplified: Bialik wrote it in 1903 after visiting the scene of a pogrom in Kishinev

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The latest version, the fourth, was formulated and adopted after World War Two to stop such slaughter and cruelty to civilians from ever happening again. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ History , Law , War

Simplified: Fourth version of Geneva Conventions was formulated after World War Two

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The only president besides Mr. Trump to have served a nonconsecutive second term was Grover Cleveland, decades before the Portrait Gallery was established. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , History

Simplified: Only president besides Mr Trump to have served a nonconsecutive second term was Grover Cleveland decades before the Portrait Gallery was established

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Separate portraits of first ladies are also commissioned. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , History

Simplified: Separate portraits of first ladies are also commissioned

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An 1884 painting of him by Eastman Johnson was given to the Smithsonian in 1971 by Cleveland’s family. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , History

Simplified: An 1884 painting of Grover Cleveland by Eastman Johnson was given to the Smithsonian in 1971 by Cleveland’s family

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The National Portrait Gallery didn’t start commissioning original works until 1994, when it hired Mr. Sherr to paint George H.W. Bush. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , History

Simplified: National Portrait Gallery didn’t start commissioning original works until 1994 when it hired Mr Sherr to paint George H.W. Bush

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It is often hung a year or two later in a special exhibition, “America’s Presidents.” 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Art , History

Simplified: Official portraits are often hung a year or two later in a special exhibition America’s Presidents

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