Thirteen colonies in a land far, far away united and announced their independence from a distant, powerful monarch. No, it's no...
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Space is considered the last great frontier. Since the beginning of time, humans have looked up with wonder at the stars, moon,...
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We’ve only one planet to live on, so the preservation of natural resources for our children and grandchildren is up to us. This...
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Is there any more magical phrase than “Once upon a time”? This beginning of so many classic fairy tales sends the reader into a...
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Forty-four men have served as President of the United States. They have lead the country through wars, economic depressions, ...
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The United States and Canada observe Black History month in February; the United Kingdom observes it in October. While the co...
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For centuries, humans have attempted to codify the rights, privileges, responsibilities, and freedoms each person has in a so...
The French Revolution began in 1789 and took the idea of modern democracy from the fledgling United States to Europe. A perio...
Macabre, dark, foreboding; these adjectives are often used to describe the works of Edgar Allan Poe. While this is true of ma...
"For never was there a tale of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." The last lines of William Shakespeare's "Romeo an...
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