While the folks back home celebrate Valentine’s Day of 1969 with their loved ones, the US Marine Corps’ nineteen-year-old sniper ace Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney is stuck deep in the sweltering ...

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A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better. In her first novel since “Americanah,” she draws on a ...

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The topics of this fleet and vivid new account of the papacy’s recent history are familiar—disputes over sexual mores, war and peace, church and state, money, and the reach of Vatican ...

Municipal staffers are close to completing a study on the feasibility of building a new Park City Senior Center on the parcels making up the Mawhinney parking lot and an adjacent lot. The municipality ...

After learning that many from his generation have been dying, Cardone -- who served in the Marine Corps as a sniper between ...

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Sniper Elite: Resistance is an entertaining third-person shooter video game that combines action, strategy, and stealth in the era of World War II The Sniper Elite franchise has been with us for more ...