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Christmas Eve of 1929 was frigid and snowy, which encouraged cheerful hearth fires in the cold and drafty offices of the West Wing.
By the time William Sydney Porter earned fame as the perfecter of the short story, he had packed a pile of living into a short span of years.
Santa in the United States has a special identity, the result of melding religious symbolism, Old World lore, and Dutch folktales.
The story about Santa Claus was stuck inside the paper on the editorial page as a "third-column" item, which meant it was filler.
The kings were on their knees, and their treasure had not been placed aside for safekeeping but was being offered to the newborn in the straw.
It ranks with Magna Carta as a great pivot point in the affairs of mankind.
There are a million ways a revolution can go wrong.
America's shape-shifting creature of many talents.
It was an epic adventure that was gloriously improbable and wonderfully hopeless. Such things were the people's stock-in-trade.
The vehicle for his revived fame is a strange one, and we wonder what he would have thought of it.
The response of the western world's democracies to COVID-19 took its cue from the reaction to the so-called Spanish Flu a century ago.
There isn't a single instance on record of his picking a fight or running away from one.
Not until July 9 did Washington receive John Hancock's letter of three days earlier, a message officially informing him about the proclamation ending American allegiance to King George III.
The most surprising aspect of Americans declaring their independence is that it was not done impulsively.
British Caption John Montresor was from an aged military tradition and a venerable military establishment.
His impervious moral center came with weighty baggage.
