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Augusta National’s all male policy: who wants your ugly green jacket anyway? by Marjorie Arons-Barron

April 9, 2012 by Tony Posted in Uncategorized Leave a Comment

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. “Co-leader Couples turns back clock at Augusta” read Saturday’s Boston Globe sports section sub-headline, hailing the return to prominence of Fred Couples in the Masters golf tournament. If he wins, the good looking fellow could become the oldest…

Civil War death toll revised upward

April 9, 2012 by DickH Posted in History 1 Comment

For more than a century, historians have used 618,000 as the approximate number of men who died in the American Civil War. That number, it turns out, may have significantly underestimated the number of casualties. As reported in the Science section of last Tuesday’s New York Times, a demographic historian…