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Today in history: Birthday of South African liberation fighter Oliver Tambo
October 27, 2015Oliver Reginald Tambo, anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary, was born on this date in 1917.
Read moreYevgeniy Fiks: Artist honors Pittsburgh’s labor history
October 23, 2015A new art installation by Russian artist Yevgeniy Fiks has opened at Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum.
Read moreToday in history: Pelé, greatest soccer player ever, turns 75
October 23, 2015Pelé, the now retired Brazilian professional soccer player widely regarded as the greatest player of all time, was born on this date in 1940.
Read moreOctober is National Stamp Collecting Month
October 22, 2015Stamp collecting is not the serious hobby it once was, but I want to offer a salute to this pastime that once provided me hours of fascination.
Read moreToday in history: Chilean communist poet Pablo Neruda wins Nobel Prize
October 21, 2015Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams."
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