prologue
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James Madison quipped: “A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy.”
From Slate • Feb. 6, 2025
By the late 1960s, Washington’s Birthday was one of nine federal holidays that fell on specific dates on different days of the week, according to a 2004 article in the National Archives’ Prologue magazine.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024
Transporting Clinton’s records from Washington required eight flights of large C-5 military transport aircraft, Nancy Kegan Smith, a former archivist at NARA, wrote in a 2008 article for NARA’s Prologue magazine.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2023
In the Prologue, her tone blended with Clayton’s gruff beauty for a duet of unsettling harmony.
From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2022
Take the Prologue to the “Legend of Good Women”— A thousand timës have I heard men tell That there is joy in heaven and pain in hell, And I accordë well that it is so.
From Chaucer and His England by Coulton, G. G.
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