... civil wars in the Arab world, specifically Tahrir Square, that began on the 18th of December 2010 and spread through surrounding countries. The revolution removed former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and replaced him with a temporary unity government. In October, 2011, the Enhahda Party, an Islamic organization, won a plurality in an election to form a Constituent Assembly, which is working on ... ...

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... , there was no wholesale assault on freedom of religion. At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, there were devout Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Dutch Reformed, Lutherans, Quakers, Presbyterians, Methodists, and Roman Catholics. Deist Ben Franklin asked for prayer during the Convention, while several months later George Washington spoke at a Jewish synagogue. During the Revolution, many members of the Continental Congress attended sermons preached by ... ...

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... had already drafted two Virginia state resolutions proclaiming Parliament's misuse of legislative rights as well as rejecting the British Minister, Lord North's conciliatory proposals. On June 7, 1776 Jefferson joined with Ben Franklin, John Adams, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman to became apart of a Congressional committee proposing Independence. Therefore by July 4, 1776 the Second Continental Congress proclaimed the Declaration of Independence to ... ...

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... . He eventually moved from Boston to Philadelphia where he bought the Pennsylvania Gazette, and with his improvements turned his investment into a successful newspaper. With this successful newspaper to his name, Ben Franklin had the ability to pursue goals in other fields. Franklin started publishing the Poor Richard's Almanac. Almanacs contained articles with topics including weather reports, cooking recipes, predictions and various ... ...

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