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Your family name did not come from a mistake at Ellis Island

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An Italian family prepares to pass through Ellis Island, 1905.

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A word to the Y's on Ukrainian and Russian

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Have yourself a cracking St. Patrick's Day

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The problem with mask mandates for speech therapy

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The trials and travails of 'travel'

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John Oliver has some complaints about Subway, the sandwich chain

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7 toons about replacement theory conspiracists

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