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- ... that Harry Dunn guarded a stairwell and Nancy Pelosi's office during the January 6 United States Capitol attack?
- ... that no law establishes whether a sitting U.S. president can be prosecuted?
- ... that Bray Hammond condemned the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky, decided 185 years ago today, as "about as weak and timid as any the Court ever pronounced"?
- ... that William Rounseville Alger's 1857 Fourth of July speech was so controversial that the city of Boston refused to print it for seven years?
- ... that Patrick J. Hessian, the 16th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army, earned the Soldier's Medal for disarming a suicidal soldier who was holding a live grenade with the pin pulled?
- ... that journalist Isaac Saul was named as one of the 16 people who had the greatest influence in the 2016 U.S. election?
- ... that research conducted in 2020 found that squirrels are "nearly ubiquitous" on college campuses in the United States and Canada?
- ... that American football player Tanner Brown went from being a walk-on to a semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award as the best college placekicker in the United States?
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Shortly after the publication of The Old Man and the Sea in 1952 Hemingway went on safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in a plane crash that left him in pain or ill-health for much of the rest of his life. Hemingway had permanent residences in Key West, Florida, and Cuba during the 1930s and '40s, but in 1959 he moved from Cuba to Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.
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The southernmost section of the road was known as the White Plains Post Road in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a major highway connecting New York City to White Plains, the Westchester county seat. Route 22 in its modern form was established in 1930 as one of the principal routes from New York City to Canada.
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Anniversaries for September 22
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- ... that a 1996 National Geographic magazine map of the United States labeled the High Desert region of southeast Oregon (pictured) as the Great Sandy Desert?
- ... that centenarian Dorothy Geeben was the oldest mayor in the United States until her death on January 10, 2010?
- ... that Louis Merrilat played football with Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, trained Iran's Persian Guard, and served as a soldier of fortune in China and with the French Foreign Legion?
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