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George Washington University has changed its school nickname to the Revolutionaries. In a video posted Wednesday on the school’s social media accounts, Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” and an alumnus of the school made the announcement. “Raise high Revolutionaries,” Todd said in the video, updating the school’s chant. The nickname change comes after criticism from students and the university community who felt the previous name “Colonials” represented colonizers “who stole land and resources from indigenous groups, killed or exiled native peoples and introduced slavery into the colonies” according to a statement posted on the university’s website.

George Washington University’s sports teams will no longer be known as the Colonials. The school said in an announcement Wednesday the school’s board of trustees and a special committee determined the name Colonials "can no longer serve its purpose as a name that unifies."

OLD TOWN ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Nestled in centuries of dirt and debris, several well-preserved ships and artifacts have been unearthed that offer a glimpse of life at what was once one of the busiest ports in the North American colonies. At the site for Robinson Landing, a new townhouse and condominium development along the Potomac River here, excavations have uncovered the protruding, curved wooden bones of the ships. Three ships were scuttled and buried here centuries ago as Alexandria sought to expand its land into the deeper waters of the river. “It tells us a lot about the resourcefulness of...

NEW DELHI: Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, had advanced independence by nine months from June 1948 to August 1947 because of his desperation to leave the affairs of the country to the people, according to his daughter Pamela Hicks. In an interview, Hicks said, "It was essential that this was brought forward... it was time for India to cope with her own problems." Mountbatten, she said, held that partition was "completely unreal, crazy and unworkable". The reason for this haste was his wife Edwina's opposition to his taking over as governor general. Hicks disagreed that partition of the...