Year: 2021
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Queen’s University historian releases new book on American evangelicals and the radical right
An historian from Queen’s University Belfast has launched a new book on one of the most controversial political movements in the American Christian Right. Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest’, by Professor Crawford Gribben from the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s, has recently been published…
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‘MIXED: Exploring What It Means to Be Blended in America’ by Jeanne Jones
Mascot Books announces the release of Mixed: Exploring What It Means to Be Blended in America, written by Jeanne Jones. Mixed is Jeanne Jones’s reflection on being a white wife and mother raising her blended biracial family in the Midwest, while also providing the call-to-action America so desperately needs: to fix the rampant racial injustice this country faces — not…
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American Honda Foundation Collaborative is Boosting STEAM Interest and Learning Among Young Black and Latino Men
The American Honda Foundation committed $2.5 million over a five-year period when it established the Honda STEAM Collaborative, a cradle-to-college and career pipeline for young Black and Latino men in the Greater Los Angeles area. The funding provided resources and support to eight nonprofit educational organizations in the areas of science, technology, engineering, arts and…
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FDA Authorizes Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use in Adolescents in Another Important Action in Fight Against Pandemic
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to include adolescents 12 through 15 years of age. The FDA amended the EUA originally issued on Dec. 11, 2020…
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FDA Authorizes Pfizer Vaccine for Emergency Use in Adolescents (video)
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 to include adolescents 12 through 15 years of age. The FDA amended the EUA originally issued on Dec. 11, 2020 for administration in individuals 16…
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Celebrate National Small Business Day (video)
National Small Business Day is an annual holiday celebrated on May 10th. Support your favorite #SmallBusiness today #NationalSmallBusinessDay #SmallBusinessDay #SmallBusiness New Book Teaches Business Owners How to Gain Successful Online Visibility Lifestyle
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U.S. Army Reveals the People Behind the Uniform in New Animated Film Series
The U.S. Army released “The Calling,” a new animated film series that profiles the deeply emotional and diverse origin stories of five Soldiers as they make the most important decision of their lives: answering the call to serve. At a time of a widening military-civilian divide, “The Calling” provides an important and rare inside look…
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Long March 5B Re-entry, falls into Indian Ocean (video)
Debris from a large Chinese rocket stage fell into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, late May 8, as people around the world waited and watched for signs of the fiery reentry of the country’s Long March 5B, empty core stage, in the skies above. Remnants from the roughly 30-meter-long, five-meter-wide empty core stage…
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3 Financial Gifts Every Mom Would Love to Have for Mother’s Day 2021
NEW YORK, May 8, 2021 (Newswire.com) – If your mom has everything she could possibly want—or at least everything you could afford to give her as a gift—perhaps a financial gift would be a good way to go for Mother’s Day this year. Cards are always good to tell Mom how you feel about her, especially if she’s…
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Bed Bugs Went Away and Now They Are Back. Why and What To Do About Them?
By Louise Hodges Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite! A silly, childhood rhyme that most kids don’t even remotely understand. That is because these blood suckers have not been an issue in most children’s world for many generations. That is, until now. But it’s ridiculous to think that a silly…