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The Death of a Dictator

December 30, 2006 Todd DeFeo
No matter where one stands politically, the world just witnessed an historic event: The death of Saddam Hussein. Saddam was tried, convicted and sentenced to death in an Iraqi judicial system. He met his fate, the hangman’s noose, just before dawn Iraqi time. The issue of Iraq has arguably become the most polarizing issues in recent United States history. Without a doubt, all sides of the political spectrum will try to use the death of
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How to define historic

October 12, 2006 Todd DeFeo
Fort McClellan has some interesting buildings. The fort, as it were, is no longer a fort. It’s an area of Anniston, Ala., that is being redeveloped – officer housing, for example, is now a residential development.

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Not the average Wednesday afternoon

October 27, 2004 Todd DeFeo
On an October afternoon 123 years ago yesterday, Wyatt Earp, two of his brothers and Doc Holliday walked along the streets of Tombstone, Ariz., and into history. Earp, who arrived in the town almost two years earlier hoping to strike it rich, found himself in the middle of an epic showdown n the “Gunfight at the OK Corral.”