Senator Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor today. The Associated Press reports that tests conducted after Kennedy suffered a seizure this weekend show a tumor in his left parietal lobe. Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant glioma.

The 76-year-old Massachusetts Democrat has been hospitalized in Boston since Saturday, when he was airlifted from Cape Cod after a seizure at his home.

Senator Kennedy’s is one of 5 senators who publicly announced his support for same sex marriage and is a long time advocate for raising the minimum wage, gun control and women’s right to choose.

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Helen Keller was 8 years old, holding the hand of her teacher Anne Sullivan, and cradling a doll in the 1888 photograph was discovered 120 years after it was taken in Cape Cod. The photograph is especially significant because it may be the first photograph taken of Keller and Sullivan, and is the only photograph of Keller with a doll, which is the first word Sullivan taught Keller to sign. In June, Thaxter Spencer, an 87-year-old man whose mother spent her summers in Cape Cod and knew Keller, donated photo albums, letters, diaries and other heirlooms to the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The staff recently realized the significance of the photo.

Helen Keller had been left blind and deaf after an illness, most likely Scarlet Fever, when she was 19 months. On, what Keller describes as “the most important day I can remember in my life,” Sullivan came to the Kellers’ home, where she was hired to teach Helen. Sullivan was 20 years old and had graduated from the Perkins School for the Blind. Sullivan, who had been blind but regained her site after several operations, taught Helen language by spelling words manually into her hand.

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