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Why relive the racial problems of America’s past?

Winston Churchill of Great Britain was instrumental in helping the United States and the Allies gain victory in World War II. He also was honored with America’s highest honor, the Gold Medal of Honor by the Congress of the United States of America. After World War II, while making a speech to the House of Commons in 1948, Churchill said, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”

Churchill was paraphrasing what the philosopher George Santayana had written in “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress” (1905). There, Santayana had written, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

I believe they were correct about the importance of knowing history and about history repeating itself. Santayana was a renowned Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet and novelist. He was educated in America from age eight. He was educated in the prestigious Boston Latin School, the oldest (1635) existing school in the United States. He attended Harvard and graduated summa cum laude (with highest distinction) in 1886. He became a member of Harvard’s faculty and was a renowned, brilliant thinker and writer.

 

The Tulsa Massacre: Not Known Until 2021

I have always loved the study of history. It began with me as a very young member of the 4H Club. That’s why I made sure my son and daughter were deeply involved

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Brawl of the Wild

Four-legged foes go blow for blow in an incredible boxing bout

By Dr. Thomas Cloer, Jr.
Special to The Courier

y wife and I love to hike and film wildlife. It is one of our favorite things to do. A pandemic that has someone dying every 30 seconds in the U.S. from COVID-19 will send one away from crowds and into the wild outdoors. It certainly did so to my wife and me.

We have spent many hours observing wildlife in the wild. I have done so now into my eighth decade. I started seriously observing wildlife in the 1950s. As the ball dropped and 2021 became a reality, I realized I had just entered into my eighth decade of serious wildlife viewing. I have published many stories about encounters

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The Benefits of Play

State’s first-ever ‘Play Club’ brings exciting results, academic study finds

CENTRAL — Several years ago, Central Academy of the Arts transformed its school days with the first-ever “Play Club” in South Carolina in recognition that, “American kids are suffering from depression, anxiety and isolation at unprecedented rates, and research has traced much of that problem to a decrease in free, unstructured interaction

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Honoring America’s Heroes

Clemson welcomes Vietnam POWs for campus tour

CLEMSON —  People passing by Memorial Park at Clemson University one day last month might have seen what looked like a typical group of visitors getting a tour of the area directly across from Memorial Stadium.

A cluster of men, most flanked by their wives or other family members, followed as their tour guide walked them through the layered symbolism of the park, which was designed to honor Clemson alumni who have died

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Camp held for special needs students

By Bru Nimmons
Staff Reporter
bnimmons@thepccourier.com

PICKENS — With the help of the Pickens High School cheerleading and girls’ basketball program, PHS hosted the inaugural Project Freedom camp for students with special needs in grades 6-12 on June 28.

According to event organizer Rikki Owens, Pickens schools had never hosted a camp for their special needs population. Owens, a special education teacher at Pickens Middle School, decided that needed to

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Celebrate America!

County July 4 events planned

By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com

COUNTY — Pickens County is celebrating Independence Day with a number of events this week and Monday.

Central/Clemson

Although it ran for more than a quarter of a century before the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, the annual Clemsonfest is not returning this year, as officials announced earlier this year that the event was “officially done.”After years at the Y Beach in Clemson each July 3, the event had moved to the Spittoono site on Eighteen Mile Road in Central, a move that

End of an Era

How to make Father’s Day more enjoyable for Dad

Dad gets to be king of his castle at least one day during the year. Come mid-June, children near and far scramble for ideas to treat their fathers to a special day and award him with gifts for being a role model, provider and confidante. Father’s Day activities should be centered around Dad’s interests. With that in mind,

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Father’s Day – A History

On July 19, 1910, the governor of the U.S. state of Washington proclaimed the nation’s first “Father’s Day.” However, it was not until 1972, 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official, that the day became a nationwide holiday in the United States.

MOTHER’S DAY: INSPIRATION FOR FATHER’S DAY

The “Mother’s Day” we celebrate today has its origins in the peace-and-reconciliation campaigns of the post-Civil War era. During the 1860s, at the urging of activist Ann Reeves Jarvis, one divided West Virginia town celebrated “Mother’s Work Days” that brought together the mothers of Confederate and Union

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Clemson-led research team launch rockets into aurora borealis to study dynamics of energy exchange

 

CLEMSON — As the Northern Lights danced over Poker Flat Research Range near Fairbanks, Alaska, early one morning in April, a team of researchers led by Clemson University assistant professor of physics Stephen Kaeppler launched a sounding rocket into the colorful aerial display.

Three minutes later, the scientists launched a second rocket.

The researchers launched the rockets to study how energy behaves during an

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