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If elected, Donald Trump poses the greatest threat to all our futures

Edit The Guardian 07 Nov 2016
Published in September 2004, Roth’s novel centres on an alternative history in which aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is nominated as the Republican party’s candidate for president in 1940 and goes on to defeat Franklin D Roosevelt on the back of a strong tide of popular support. Lindbergh’s first act is to sign a treaty with Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler, promising that the US will not interfere with German expansion in Europe....

Super Quiz: History

Edit Arkansas Online 07 Nov 2016
Who said, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?". Who famously flew the Spirit of St. Louis? ... Which country's legislature is named the Knesset? ... ANSWERS. ... Charles Lindbergh....

Trump university? N.J. colleges embrace election-themed classes

Edit NJ dot com 07 Nov 2016
Professors are using the historic Trump vs. Clinton election as a window into courses on politics, literature, journalism and more ... Blake asks his students to consume political-based books and movies to discuss in the context of current events ... In another, they dissected the novel "The Plot Against America," a book that predicts what would have happened if political outsider Charles Lindbergh won the 1940 presidential election.  ... ....

How Donald Trump Could Change the World

Edit The Atlantic 07 Nov 2016
Last week, Thomas Wright, an expert on U.S. foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, made a bold claim on Twitter about the presidential race in the United States ... “No other election has had the capacity to completely overturn the international order—the global economy, geopolitics, etc.” ... 1) opposition to U.S ... Uri Friedman ... Why?. Thomas Wright ... I think you really have to go back to [Charles] Lindbergh [in the 1940s] to find a parallel....

No. 7 River Ridge 59, Lindbergh 13: Hawks score nine touchdowns to advance to state playoffs

Edit The News Tribune 06 Nov 2016
Seventh-ranked River Ridge (8-1) advances to the state playoffs for the third straight season after tallying 382 total yards against the Eagles. Black Hills (6-4) topped Hockinson, 35-12, in Battle Ground to advance ... ....

Sun sets on daytime football at Point Loma

Edit The San Diego Union-Tribune 05 Nov 2016
A man with a leaf blower herded debris in the football stands. An Alaska Airlines flight soared from Lindbergh Field. And to the west, amid swirling pink clouds, the sun literally set on Point Loma High’s tradition of playing home football games during the day. “It’s the end of an era,” said Point ... ....

Man who disappeared from North County is found dead

Edit St Louis Post-Dispatch 05 Nov 2016
Gavin Newman was last seen on Oct. 17 at the store at North Lindbergh Boulevard and New Halls Ferry Road ... ....

New Lindbergh/Piedmont Kroger about to open

Edit Business Journal 04 Nov 2016
A new Kroger store is opening in south Buckhead. On Nov. 9, the Lindbergh/Piedmont Kroger at 2542 Morosgo Way will celebrate its grand opening. It is bringing more than 300 jobs to the area, according to an announcement. Among its offerings, the 84,397-square-foot store will feature a pharmacy, Starbucks coffee shop, deli, salad bar, cheese shop, sushi bar, juice bar, beer and wine bar, and prepared foods section ... ....

Best airports in US? San Diego International No. 3

Edit The San Diego Union-Tribune 04 Nov 2016
San Diego has long prided itself as being "America's Finest City." It appears the airport is pretty good, too. According to a study looking at the 30 busiest airports in the country, San Diego International Airport — also known as Lindbergh Field — finished third. "San Diego should be congratulated ... ....

Donald Trump and the Death of American Exceptionalism

Edit New Yorker 04 Nov 2016
In the sixteen months since he declared his candidacy, Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign has elicited comparisons to those of George Wallace and Barry Goldwater, to the hallucinatory paranoia of Joseph McCarthy, to the fascist preoccupations of Charles Lindbergh, and to lesser lights of American demagoguery like Father Coughlin and the Know-Nothings of the nineteenth century. See the rest of the story at newyorker.comRelated. ... ....

White riot

Edit Vox 04 Nov 2016
How racism and immigration gave us Trump, Brexit, and a whole new kind of politics. As the 2016 election draws to a close, one of its biggest storylines remains unresolved ... Table of contents. I ... II ... III ... IV ... V ... Brexit ... As scholars like Mudde argue, Trump’s rhetoric draws on a long history of particularly American xenophobia (like Charles Lindbergh’s America First Committee of the early 1940s, which sought to keep the US out of World War II) ... ....

Four aspiring teachers receive $1,000 scholarships (San Diego County Unified School District)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Nov 2016
Ricardo Vega, Special Education Health Technician, Lindbergh-Schweitzer Elementary School Kelly Fragoso, Special Education Assistant, Angier Elementary School Marsi Latimer, Special Education Assistant, Taft Middle School Akia Green, Special Education Technician, Lindbergh-Schweitzer Elementary School ... Ricardo is a Special Education Health Technician at Lindbergh-Schweitzer Elementary School....

Rally to save Flemington's Union Hotel moved to Nov. 13

Edit NJ dot com 02 Nov 2016
on Friday by Lindbergh enthusiast James Davidson at the historic courthouse ... "When the Circus Came to Town -- Flemington during the Lindbergh Kidnapping Trial" is being sponsored by the Hunterdon County Cultural and Heritage Commission and, according to Davidson, is "not about Lindbergh, nor Hauptmann nor Hauptmann's guilt or innocence....
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