THE MAKING OF A NATION #44 - Thomas Jefferson, Part 9 (The Last Days) By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Thursday, January 08, 2004 (THEME) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English

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SUSAN DAVIS, HOST: In France, there is pride in its national soccer team and high hopes of winning the World Cup tournament now being played in Russia. Many players on the French team are from these diverse, big-city suburbs that are struggling with

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Letters on the grave. Since the stranger's visit at Cranshawe's cafe, rumors were buzzing around the village. Was what he had said actually true? Who was he? How did he know so much about this old, sad story? And what had happened to Peter Whitcome's

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By Robert Raffaele Washington 16 August 2007 New Jefferson $1 coin The face of one of their nation's founding fathers will soon stare back at Americans reaching for pocket change. The United States Mint has unveiled a new coin, honoring the American

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After Thomas Black discovered the Whitcome grave, the church bell incident loomed large in his mind. He had been ready to dismiss the event entirely, but now he felt as though there was an intruder in the village, a prankster perhaps. Whoever it was,

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Jefferson kept his promise to Sally Hemings. All four of their children were freed while Jefferson was still living or by the terms of his will. Their son Beverley and daughter Harriet settled in Washington, D.C. Madison moved to Ohio, earning a livi

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