Hulton Archive/Children’s Television Workshop/Getty Images Hulton Archive/Children’s Television Workshop/Getty Images Big Bird, politics, and the ABCs: how a television show made to represent New York City neighborhoods like Harlem and the Bronx became beloved by families around a divided country. […]
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Today, the city of Jerusalem is seen as so important that people are willing to kill and die to control it. And that struggle goes back centuries. Nearly a thousand years ago, European Christians embarked on what became known as
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