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  • Good News on this Day in History, February 7
    • Charles Dickens portrait in 1842 by Francis Alexander
    Today marks the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, who rose from poverty and child labor to become the most beloved and admired author of the period. His works heightened society's awareness of the social burdens unfairly borne by the poor.
    • Tasmania created the first law anywhere providing secret ballots for elections (1856)
    • Charlie Chaplin first appeared as The Tramp in his first film (1914)
    • Beatlemania reached the US as the Beatles began their…
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  • 25 Interesting Things About the Good News Network
    1. The website GoodNewsNetwork.org went LIVE on Labor Day, 1997.
    2. The biggest spike in traffic occurred on September 11, after terrorists attacked NYC and Washington, DC in 2001.
    3. The second biggest spike in traffic occurred in September 2008 following the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the tanking of Wall Street.
    4. I was described in a Washington Times report as a cross between Deepak Chopra and Ann Landers.
    5. Colin Powell sent me a note in 1998 telling me to keep up the good work.
    6. In the last decade, three of the top good news stories about the environment were thanks to…
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  • Fewer Pirate Attacks on World Seas in 2011
    With more international boats patrolling the high seas, piracy in 2011 dropped for the first time in five years. Pirate attacks in the South China Sea were cut by almost two thirds and Bangladesh incidents plunged by more than half. -Associated Press
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