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This Portulan navigation chart on vellum was compiled by Samuel de Champlain (1567-1635), the founder of New France, and was originally intended as a gift to the King of France.
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Joan Vinckeboons (1617-1670) was a Dutch cartographer and engraver from a family of artists of Flemish origin. He was employed by the Dutch West Indies Company and made maps for over 30 years for use in Dutch commercial and military transport.
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The Bay Psalm Book, as this work is known, is the first book printed in British North America. Reverend Jesse Glover imported the first printing press to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638, some 18 years after the first English settlers landed on Plymouth Rock.
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This pen and ink handwritten map shows the disposition of the troops at the beginning of the Battle of Monongahela, which took place on July 9, 1755, in the second year of the Franco-Indian War.
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In Boston in the late 1760s, movements for what later became the American Revolution began because residents were angered by heavy taxes.
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John Dunlap, impresor oficial del Congreso Continental, produjo las primeras versiones impresas de la Declaración de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos en su local de Filadelfia en la noche del 4 de julio de 1776.
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The Federal Convention was convened to solve the problems of government of the young republic under the existing Articles of Confederation. The convention responded by drafting the document that would become the Constitution of the United States.
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Construction of the Capitol, the building that houses the US Congress, began in 1793 and was largely completed in 1865, when its second dome was completed.
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Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States of America and one of the founding fathers of the republic.
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He received less than a year of formal education, but reading the King James Bible and other English classics made him a skilled writer.
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In the entry made on March 10, 1876 in his own notebook, Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) described the first successful experiment with the telephone: he spoke through the apparatus with his assistant, Thomas A. Watson
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This photograph shows the first controlled and sustained powered flight of a heavier-than-air aircraft, which took place in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, at approximately 10:35 a.m. on December 17, 1903.
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In view of the extreme shortage of resources during the war, women were needed in the defense industries, the civil service, and even the armed forces.
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The Apollo 17 mission, which took place between December 7 and 19, 1972, was the last of the missions to the moon carried out in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the National Aeronautics and Administration Administration. US Space (NASA)
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The Gulf War was a warlike conflict fought by a United Nations-authorized coalition force of 34 countries and led by the United States, against the Iraqi Republic in response to the Iraqi invasion and annexation of the State of Kuwait.
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also known as the Rodney King Riot or the Rodney King Riots, when an almost entirely white jury acquitted the four police officers who appeared on recordings taken by video fan George Holliday as they beat up the black taxi driver Rodney King.04
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In an act of terrorism the twin towers fall in New York
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founds the social network Facebook
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The death of the Iranian general during an air attack by the United States in January, raised the tension between Washington and Tehran
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With more than two million coronavirus cases, the United States has the highest number of confirmed infections in the world. About a quarter of the global number.