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Slavery Was Abolished Before Martin Luther King

In case you are one of the 20%.

In a recent survey of college students on U.S. civic literacy, more than 81 percent knew that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was expressing hope for “racial justice and brotherhood” in his historic “I Have a Dream” speech.

Most of the rest surveyed thought King was advocating the abolition of slavery.

Free International Phone Calls from the US [Thanks Iowa!]

I read this and then learned this:

Click here to look at the (growing) list of available countries.

How does this work – and where does Iowa come in?

“The founder created his own telephone company in Iowa. Iowa is apparently the only state taking advantage of an FCC kickback scheme that gives telco’s a portion of the fees generated from every inbound call to an Iowa number. So when you call the AllFreeCalls phone number, a portion of any long distance fees you are paying go to the company. The kickback is apparently authorized via the Universal Service Fund. These kickbacks are enough on average to more than cover the international outbound calling fees.”

About Anil Polat

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