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This passage 2 is read by students to test their speaking skills: "When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light ...

And the worst was yet to come. The captives were about to embark on the infamous Middle Passage, so called because it was the middle leg of a three-part voyage -- a voyage that began and ended in ...

Protestants deny that good works can be meritorious (i.e., rewarded by God), but St. Augustine taught that our merit was merely God “crowning his own gifts.” That’s what the Catholic Church ...

Just as horrifying as these death marches was the Middle Passage, as it was called -- the transport of slaves across the Atlantic. On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods ...

Maggie Smith, 89, a scene-stealing British actor who won Oscars for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “California Suite,” later enchanting audiences as a professorial witch in the Harry ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shadrack Nyongesa’s appointment with the knife was set for shortly after dawn. Since the previous morning, the ...

They then set sail for Caribbean and the Americas. This journey across the Atlantic was called the Middle Passage. Slave ships usually took between six and eleven weeks to complete the voyage.

Vice President Kamala Harris has been accused by a conservative activist of plagiarizing passages in a book she co-authored more than a decade ago. Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the ...

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Trump and the Federal Election Case Against Him: Key Passages From Prosecutors' Latest Court Filing WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump “laid the groundwork for his crimes” well before Election ...