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Abraham Lincoln, “The Power of the People”
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At 8 years old, Mozart played a flawless symphony
When Daines Barrington met Mozart he brought a new composition to test the...
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An underachieving Princeton student wrote a term paper describing how to make a nuclear bomb. It was seized by the FBI
In 1976, John Aristotle Phillips was an underachieving student at Princeton. In order to improve his grades, he wrote a term paper on nuclear proliferation.…
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Where did, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do” originate?
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The Egyptian origin of the Statue of Liberty
In 1869, Frederic Bartholdi was commissioned by Egypt to design a lighthouse for the Suez...
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12 interesting stories about Sitting Bull
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San Juan, Puerto Rico once had snow delivered by plane for those who had never experienced it
Felisa Rincón de Gautier was the first woman to be elected Mayor of a capital city in the Americas.