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In 1783, Benjamin Franklin commissioned the Monnaie de Paris—the Paris Mint—to create the Libertas Americana medal to commemorate the patriots’ victories at Yorktown and Saratoga.—
John Ortved,
Travel + Leisure,
22 May 2026 -
And Elia Kazan, the most notorious name-namer of them all, was simply a courageous patriot who told the truth.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
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There is no denying her perceptiveness, and her contemporaneous letters to her husband’s successor, Andrew Johnson—mostly attempts to secure positions for Lincoln loyalists—do not suggest a woman mentally finished off by yet more grief and loss.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Venezuela extradited a financial adviser of former President Nicolás Maduro to the US, a major escalation in Caracas’ purge of Maduro loyalists.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
18 May 2026
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“Counterrevolutionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterrevolutionary. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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