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In 1492 Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue
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First permanent English colony in North America founded in Jamestown.
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Mayflower pilgrims arrive at cape cod establish colony at plymouth.
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First medical school founded in Philadelphia.
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Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod.
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So that we would have law and order.
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Ben invents bifocals to help people see.
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It led ships to their own port.
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Second Continental congress adopts the Deckeraton Of Independence
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France offered to sell not just New Orleans but all of Louisiana Province. The American negotiators agreed on a price of $15 million, or about 4 cents an acre. In a single stroke, Jefferson doubled the size of the country.
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The whole business got a big boost with the invention of the storage battery. Battery power let people drive all kinds of output signals -- like magnets and marks on litmus paper. Between 1800 and Morse's work, many telegraph systems were developed, and many were not bad.
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I need not tell the brave survivors of so many hard fought battles who have remained steadfast to the last, that I have consented to this result with no distrust of them; but feeling that valour and devotion could accomplish nothing that would compensate for the loss that would have attended the continuance of the contest, I determined to avoid the useless sacrifice of those whose past services have endeared them to their countrymen. By the terms of the agreement officers and men can return to
