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Persisters

Petula Dvorak

Humans who push, persevere, pivot and persist...despite all the sh*t.

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Dr. Bob had slipped. He had been putting together stretches of sobriety, but a convention trip to Atlantic City undid him and he returned home to Akron – where he was scheduled to p...

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'A Republican said that?'

“I hope to God I’m right,” Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower confessed to his driver on June 5, 1944, the night before the epic D-Day invasion.

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Which town banned Rock 'n' Roll 70 years ago?

The Santa Cruz Sentinel ran this photo with a column about teens and dancing after a controversial ban in 1956.

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Trump tagged the Kennedy Center. Here's the woman who wasn't having it.

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They ignored her, circumvented her and muted her on a Zoom meeting. But Rep. Joyce Beatty persisted.

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She never said "Ain't I a Woman?"

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Isabella Baumfree shocked the growing feminist movement in America when she gave a speech on the steps of an Ohio church that most of the women around her did not want to hear.

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    Last of the local columnists for The Washington Post (before they got rid of us), daughter of Czech immigrants, history curious, new empty nester, ADHD CEO of a house of Y chromosomes, married to a fellow Chaos Muppet, too profane for MSM

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