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Members of the Kennedy family publicly criticized the board’s decision to rename the John F. Kennedy Center for the ...

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Some had wondered how the show about Abraham Lincoln’s wife would fare after its creator left the Broadway cast. But mirth is abundant as it opens on the West End.

She may not have been a fan of the theatre herself, for understandable reasons, but a play about Mary Lincoln is the West End ...

Discover how the Rural Electrification Act powered millions of rural homes in the 1930s and continues to influence ...

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