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The massacre at the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) was the deadliest peacetime shooting by…
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As the millennium loomed, Christianity in Africa blossomed to equal or surpass the number of its European adherents. African Christians…
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One of the positive legacies bequeathed to India by the Raj (as the British rule there was known) was the…