Muslims Strive for Tolerance -- and Votes
Mukit Hossain has been up since 5 a.m., crisscrossing Northern Virginia in his tiny 10-year-old pickup truck to help turn out the Muslim vote in a presidential campaign that has left many Muslims feeling marginalized. He has stopped five times to pray in the truck, which is covered with political...
(By DeNeen L. Brown, The Washington Post)
During its heyday one hundred years ago, the American circus was the largest show-biz industry the world had ever seen. From the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, traveling American circuses performed for audiences of up to 14,000 per show, employed as many as 1,600 men and women, and crisscrossed the country on 20,000 miles of railroad in one season alone.
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 2 -- Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joseph R. Biden Jr. each sought to cast themselves as the "kitchen table" candidate in the first and only debate between the major-party vice presidential candidates last night, each making the claim that their running mates better understa...
(By Robert Barnes and Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post)
"When there’s no place to call home: Stories of people who have experienced homelessness in WA" is a collection of stories by people who have experienced life without a home in Western Australia.
The people who shared their stories in the book are from different places across the state and their experiences show how complex and personal the circumstances are that lead to someone experiencing life without a home.
There is so much we can learn about homelessness when we listen to those who have experienced it.
heyday Show phoneticsnoun [C usually singular]
the most successful or popular period of someone or something:
In their heyday, they sold as many records as all the other groups in the country put together.criss-cross
verb [I or T]
to move or exist in a pattern of lines crossing something or each other:
This area of the city is criss-crossed by railway lines.
criss・cross
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