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TIME January 28, 1935 12:00 AM GMT-5 Happy last September was Simon Moulton Hamlin, lantern-jawed, 240-lb. strawberry farmer, when Maines First District elected him its first Democratic Congressman in some 70 years. Happy was he last month when, at 68, he married the only woman who had ever been a census supervisor in Maine. Arriving

Nowadays, Memorial Day honors veterans of all wars, but its roots are in Americas deadliest conflict, the Civil War. Approximately 620,000 soldiers died, about two-thirds from disease. The work of honoring the dead began right away all over the country, and several American towns claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day. Researchers have traced

When Iranian chess star Sara Khadem, an International Master, competed without a hijab at an international event last December in Almaty, Kazakhstanin defiance of her countrys mandatory dress regulationsshe knew the risk she was taking. She could be arrested upon returning homeor worse. Khadem acted in solidarity with the protest movements that erupted after Mahsa

Conversations around rape, pedophilia, child marriage and sexual harassment have intensified in the court of public opinion and have taken centre stage on Twitter, the quintessential vehicle for activism and contemporary conversations in the 21st century. Thus, the Nigerian age of consent has been subject to intense questions at such trying times.

Alex Haleys Roots got her started. When she first read that epic reconstruction of a black familys odyssey from freedom in Africa to slavery and emancipation in Virginia, Dorothy Spruill Redford could trace her family only as far back as her grandparents. But Haleys genealogical pilgrimage impelled her to one of her own. For Redford,