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What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?
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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks
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Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
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Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Jason Rezaian

Iranian-American journalist

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“The Washington Post”

  • Post publisher and editor
    In The Washington Post: The Bezos years

    …July 2014, Post Iran correspondent Jason Rezaian was arrested by the Iranian government and detained on charges of, among other things, espionage. He was freed in January 2016, after intense efforts by the Obama administration, the Rezaian family, and the leadership of The Post.

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