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Article of the day for December 25, 2017

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Article of the day is Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

‘The Russia Story’

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‘The Russia Story’ How the year's biggest story was encountered in 2017 by rabid Democrats, recalcitrant Republicans, and everyone else on the internet.

Picture of the day for December 25, 2017

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Picture of the day on December 25, 2017: Nativity of Christ at the winged altar of the parish- and pilgrimage church Kefermarkt, Upper Austria. Anonymous master (Master of the Kefermarkt Altarpiece), around 1497.

‘The Russia Story’

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‘The Russia Story’

Picture of the day for December 25, 2017

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Nativity of Christ at the winged altar of the parish- and pilgrimage church Kefermarkt, Upper Austria. Anonymous master (Master of the Kefermarkt Altarpiece), around 1497..

Safari Guide Stares Down Charging Elephant, Stops It In Its Tracks

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Safari Guide Stares Down Charging Elephant, Stops It In Its Tracks

Article of the day for December 25, 2017

The Article of the day for December 25, 2017 is Muhammad Ali Jinnah . Muhammad Ali Jinnah (25 December 1876  – 11 September 1948) is honoured as the founder of Pakistan, where his birthday is observed as a national holiday. He served as leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until Pakistan's independence from Great Britain in 1947, and then as the first Governor-General of Pakistan until his death. Jinnah rose to prominence in the Indian National Congress in the first two decades of the 20th century. In these early years of his political career, he advocated Hindu–Muslim unity, helping to shape the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the All-India Muslim League. By 1940, he had come to believe that Muslims of the Indian subcontinent should have their own state. As the first leader of Pakistan, he worked to establish the nation's government and policies, and to aid the millions of Muslim migrants who had emigrated from the new nation of India to Pakistan after i