Posts Tagged ‘relief’
Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society: History and Mission (Naval History Blog)
An interesting history-related post from Naval History Blog:
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Storeship Culgoa Provides Earthquake Relief, 1909 (Naval History Blog)
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Seneca Indian Nation wants tax relief not handouts (Native America, Discovered and Conquered)
An interesting history-related post from Native America, Discovered and Conquered:
President Robert Porter, of the Seneca Nation in western New York state, has a message for President Obama: “I’d like to see the president not be so timid in his efforts to support and protect Indian country,” he says.
Many American Indians reservations and Indian communities continue to suffer from incredibly high unemployment and its related problems. By contrast, the Seneca Nation is a thriving economy, operating casinos and tobacco businesses, Porter says.
Instead of government handouts, Porter says the Seneca people would benefit from tax relief — a message he carrid to this week’s meeting with federal officials. “The ...
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Hungary to sell communist art for red sludge relief (The History Blog)
An interesting history-related post from The History Blog:
The Hungarian government will be putting some of its communist history on the auction block in aid of the victims of the red sludge flood that killed 10 people, all the fish in the Marcal river and contaminated and destroyed vast swaths of western Hungary. The incoming government found the 230 sculptures, photographs and paintings squirreled away in various state offices and warehouses where they had been stashed after the fall of the communist regime in 1990. The collection includes busts and portraits of Lenin, Hungarian Party functionaries, socialist-realist paintings.
The items were found when Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s new ...
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