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Officials in Rhode Island on Wednesday confirmed the first case of mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) this year, after neighboring Massachusetts sent out warnings over the virus. “We are seeing more human cases of mosquito-borne disease in Rhode Island and…

“Only the dead have seen the end of war,” Plato wrote. Fortunately, this isn’t always true. The end of the Civil War brought a half-century of peace and prosperity for many Americans. One of these was Rufus Dawes, a participant…