Friday, December 21, 2007

On this date

Jane Fonda, Actress and political antagonist, is 70
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in 1988, a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a Pan Am Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. (Go to article.)
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, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Congressman Thomas B. Reed, the powerful speaker of the house. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

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