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  • How Abraham Lincoln Broke the Barrier Between Church and State

    10/11/2025 11:39:01 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 13 replies
    Politico Magazine ^ | 2023 | Joshua Zeits
    On September 1862, weeks before he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln wrestled with the enormous dilemma of whether to change the stakes of the Civil War…In a private document found after his death, the president struggled to understand what God expected of him and of the nation. “The will of God prevails,” Lincoln began. “In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is...
  • The First Humans Were Hunted By Leopards And Weren’t The Apex Predators We Thought They Were...Homo habilis has been "dethroned".

    09/17/2025 9:01:29 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 32 replies
    IFL Science ^ | September 17, 2025 | Benjamin Taub
    Leopard tooth marks were found on this Homo habilis jawbone. Image credit: Vegara-Riquelme et al., Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2025) Around 2 million years ago, prehistoric humans in East Africa turned the tables on the carnivores that had previously terrorized them, learning not only to fend off these predators but also steal their kills, thus replacing them at the very top of the food chain. Generally, the ancient species Homo habilis is credited with making this trophic leap, yet new research suggests that this extinct hominin was actually hunted by leopards and may therefore have been...