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During his first voyage in 1492, instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, Columbus landed in the Bahamas archipelago.
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was an Italian navigator and explorer whose discovery of parts of North America. he was first European encounter with the continent of North America since the Norse Vikings
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He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River
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The Roanoke Colony was financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh and carried out by Ralph Lane and Richard Grenville, Raleigh's distant cousin.
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Captain John Smith Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania and friend Mózes Székely.
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The history of slavery covers slave systems in historical perspective in which one human being is legally the property of another, can be bought or sold, is not allowed to escape and must work for the owner without any choice involved. As Drescher (2009) argues, "The most crucial and frequently utilized aspect of the condition is a communally recognized right by some individuals to possess, buy, sell, discipline, transport, liberate, or otherwise dispose of the bodies and behavior of other indiv
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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, later together known to history as the Pilgrims, who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower.
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It is the oldest school in America. The old wooden verison was torn down but but the school was restarted in other areas.
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The Atlantic slave trade, also known as the trans-atlantic slave trade, refers to the trade in slaves that took place across the Atlantic ocean from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth centuries. The vast majority of slaves involved in the Atlantic trade were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent, who were sold by African slave dealers to European traders, who transported them to the colonies in North and South America.
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The Bill of Rights was passed by Parliament on 16 December 1689.[2] It was a re-statement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689 (or 1688 by Old Style dating), inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England.
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A lightning rod or lightning conductor is a metal rod or conductor mounted on top of a building and electrically connected to the ground through a wire, to protect the building in the event of lightning.
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The French and Indian War was the American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America it lasted from 1754 to 1763.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War.
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America.
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The war was between great britten and the 13 colonies. it eventally became global.
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Slavery in the United States was a form of slave labor which existed as a legal institution in North America for more than a century before the founding of the United States in 1776, and continued mostly in the South until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865 following the American Civil War.
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The Articles of Confederationwas an agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution
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The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America.
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Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
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Delaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, to the east by New Jersey and to the north by Pennsylvania.
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to the east
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New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. As of the United States 2010 Census[update], its population was 8,791,894
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Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1788, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain.
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Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America.
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Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east
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South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
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New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America
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The Commonwealth of Virginia is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States
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New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state.
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George Washington was the first president of the United States his nickname was Father of his Country.
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North Carolina is a state located in the Southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north.
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4 million
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Rhode Island was a leader in the American Revolutionary movement. Having the greatest degree of self-rule, it had the most to lose from the efforts of England after 1763 to increase her supervision and control over her American colonies.
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Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, 9,250 square miles (24,000 km2), and 45th in total area.
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The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, which limit the power of the U.S. federal government.
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The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region
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The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region
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A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job formerly performed by hand.
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The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, which was passed by the Congress on March 4, 1794, and was ratified on February 7, 1795, deals with each state's sovereign immunity.
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Tennessee eastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population
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John graduated from from Harvard and his nickname was Atlas of independence. He was our second president of the Untied States.
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Tomas was our third president and his nickname was Man of the People.
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On February 19, 1803, President Jefferson signed an act of Congress that approved Ohio's boundaries and constitution
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The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides the procedure for electing the President and Vice President.
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His religon was Episcopalian and he was a laywer before he become the president of the United States.
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This war started on 1812. Thats how it got its name the war of 1812.
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The District of Louisiana was created by the Act of April 8, 1812, effective upon the admission of Louisiana as a State on April 30, 1812.
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Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816.
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Michigan was started in 1817 and was in Detroit, but it moved to Ann Arbor in 1837 and thats where it is still today.
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His nickname was The Last Cocked Hat and he was the 5th president of the Untied States.
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The Territory of Mississippi was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 7, 1798, until December 10, 1817, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Mississippi
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The Territory of Illinois was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 1, 1809, until December 3, 1818, when the southern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Illinois.
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The Territory of Alabama was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 15, 1817, until December 14, 1819, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Alabama.
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Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast.
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Missouri is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States,[6] bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska
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His nickname was Old Man Eloquent and he was the 6th president of the Untied States.
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His nickname was Old Hickory.He was our president but had no formal education.
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The graham cracker also graham wafer) was developed in 1829 in Bound Brook, New Jersey, by Presbyterian minister Rev. Sylvester Graham. Though called a cracker, it is sweet rather than salty and so it is a cookie—similar to the British digestive biscuit
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12.8 million
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The Trail of Tears is a name given to the relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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It was the college to accept women into there collage.back then women were appected to work in the house or on the gardens but Oberlin college was the first to take women into their college also.
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Oberlin College was the first school to accept blacks into there college. the colleges modo was "learning and labor."
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The Texas Revolution was in 1835 and 1836 between the people who were living in Texas and the people living in Mexico. It was a war to make Texas independent from Mexico.
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Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians
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Michigan was the twenty-sixth state to enter into the union, on Jan. 26, 1837. It is known for its interesting geographical location, bordering four of the five Great Lakes
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His father was Abraham Van Buren.
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Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an American inventor who developed a process to vulcanize rubber in 1839 -- a method that he perfected while living and working in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1844, and for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844
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17 million
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He did a speach outside on a very cold day caught pneumonia and died one month later.
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John was born on March 29, 1790, in Greenway, Virginia and he died on January 18, 1862, in Richmond, Virginia.
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Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts
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He was the 11th president of the United States.
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Texas was the twenty-eighth state to enter into the union and was admitted on December 29, 1845. Texas is the second largest in population after California and has the second largest land-area after Alaska.
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this was the war to get Texas from mexico and to become apart of the United States.
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Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland".
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A doughnut or donut is a fried dough food and is popular in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet (or occasionally savory) snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty outlets.
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He was the 12th president of the United States and he was only president for a year.
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23 million
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his nickname was he American Louis Philippe and he was the 13th president of the USA.
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He was the 14th president of the United States.
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Michigan State started in 1855 and it is a college in Landsing.
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his nickname was Old Buck and he was the 15th president of the United States.
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An eraser (US) or rubber (UK) is an article of stationery that is used for rubbing out pencil markings. Erasers have a rubbery consistency and are often white or pink, although modern materials allow them to be made in any color.
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31.4 million
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The original Henry rifle was a .44 caliber rimfire, lever-action, breech-loading rifle designed by Benjamin Tyler Henry in the late 1850s. The Henry rifle was an improved version of the earlier Volcanic Repeating rifle
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This war was our country againest our country. It was the north who wanted to free the slaves vs. the south who didnt want to free them.
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Abraham freed all the slaves in the Untied States and his nickname was Honest Abe,
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elly beans are a small bean-shaped type of confectionery with a hard candy shell and a gummy interior which come in a wide variety of flavors. The confection is primarily made of sugar.
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James Caleb Jackson (March 28, 1811–1895) was the inventor of the first dry, whole grain breakfast cereal which he called granula.
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He was the 17th president of the Untied States.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, passed by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. On December 18, Secretary of State William H. Seward, in a proclamation, declared it to have been adopted. It was the first of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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He was a Republican and he was a solider before becoming the president.
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The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery). It was ratified on February 3, 1870
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African-American history is the portion of American history that specifically discusses the African American or Black American ethnic group in the United States. Most African Americans are the descendants of captive Africans held in the United States from 1619 to 1865.
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Levi Strauss born Löb Strauß, German pronunciation February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.
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Rutherford was the 19th president of the Untied States of America.
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Toilet paper is a soft paper product (tissue paper) used to maintain personal hygiene after human defecation or urination. However, it can also be used for other purposes such as blowing one's nose when one has a cold or absorbing common spills around the house,
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor, scientist, and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial research laboratory.
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50.1 million
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On July 2, shot by Charles Julius Guiteau. Garfield died of blood poisoning on September 19.
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Chester was the 21st president of the United States.
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He was the 22nd president and the 24th president and his nickname was the Veto President.
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He was the 23rd president of the USA. His nickname was little ben.
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William Phelps Eno (June 3, 1858-December 3, 1945) was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the "Father of traffic safety", despite never having learned to drive a car himself.
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CMU also known as Central Michigan University is one of the nation's 100 largest public universities.
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Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light.[1] Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space.
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William Phelps Eno (June 3, 1858-December 3, 1945) was an American businessman responsible for many of the earliest innovations in road safety and traffic control. He is sometimes known as the "Father of traffic safety", despite never having learned to drive a car himself.
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his nickname was Idol of Ohio and he was the 25th president of the United States
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His nickname was Teddy and he was the 16th president of the Untied States.
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Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.
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An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods.[3]
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The teddy bear is a stuffed toy bear. They are usually stuffed with soft, white cotton and have smooth and soft fur. It is an enduring form of a stuffed animal in many countries, often serving the purpose of entertaining children. In recent times, some teddy bears have become collector's items.[1]
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A banana split is an ice cream-based dessert. In its classic form it is served in a long dish called a boat. A banana is cut in half lengthwise (hence the split) and laid in the dish. There are many variations, but the classic banana split is made with scoops of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream served in a row between the split banana.
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he was the 27th president of the Untied States.
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The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.
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His nickname was Schoolmaster in Politics and he was the 18th president of the Untied States.
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The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established direct election of United States Senators by popular vote.
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World War one was the first war faught by the entier world and it lasted 4 whole years.
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Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933.
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The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920.
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He was the 29th president of the Untied States.
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He was the 30th president of the United States and his nickname was Silent Cal.
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Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in Hastings, Nebraska, United States. All of his experiments took place in his mother's kitchen.[1] Its predecessor was a liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack. To reduce shipping costs, in 1927, Perkins discovered a way to remove the liquid from Fruit Smack, leaving only a powder.
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Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer.[2] Although he made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television, he is perhaps best known for inventing the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device (video camera tube), the "image dissector", the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system, and for being the first person to demonstrate such a system t
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n 1928, Walter Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, was experimenting with new gum recipes. One recipe was found to be less sticky than regular chewing gum, and stretched more easily.
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He was the 31st president of the United States
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Rickenbacker International Corporation, also known as Rickenbacker, is an electric and bass guitar manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California. In 1932, the company became the world's first to produce electric guitars and continues to produce a range of electric and bass guitars to this day.[
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His nickname is FDR and he was a democrat.
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The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition. It was ratified on December 5, 1933.
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The college was named for its first donor, the Reverend John Harvard. it was the first college in America.
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Over Memorial Day weekend of 1934, Tom Carvel, the founder of the Carvel brand and franchise, suffered a flat tire in his ice cream truck in Hartsdale, New York--so he pulled into a parking lot next to a pottery store and began selling his melting ice cream to vacationers driving by.
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This was the second global conflict around the world it lasted 6 years. It started when poland was invaded by germany.
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He was the 33rd president of the United States.
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A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device,[1] but following popularization of the term "video game", it now implies any type of display device.
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Cable television in the United States is a common form of television delivery, generally by subscription. Cable television first became available in the United States in 1948, with subscription services in 1949. Data by SNL Kagan shows that as of 2006 about 58.4% of all American homes subscribe to basic cable television services. Most cable viewers in the US are in the suburbs and tend to be middle class;[1] cable television is less common in low income, inner city, and rural areas.
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This war started whwen the two Koreas spreated to become north and south Korea
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The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for the President of the United States.
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the first patent for a bar code type product (US Patent #2,612,994) was issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver on October 7, 1952. The Woodland and Silver bar code can be described as a "bull's eye" symbol, made up of a series of concentric circles.
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His nickname was Ike and he was the 34th president of the Untied States.
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A videotape is a recording of images and sounds on to magnetic tape as opposed to film stock or random access digital media. Videotapes are also used for storing scientific or medical data, such as the data produced by an electrocardiogram. In most cases, a helical scan video head rotates against the moving tape to record the data in two dimensions, because video signals have a very high bandwidth, and static heads would require extremely high tape speeds.
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- 179.3 million
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The war started because communism was seeking to expand in Vietnam in the same way it had attempted to expand in Korea,
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He was shot down and killed on Nov, 22 1963. He was the 35th president of the Untied States.
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The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution permits citizens in the District of Columbia to vote for Electors for President and Vice President.
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In computing, a mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of an object held under one of the user's hands, with one or more buttons. It sometimes features other elements, such as "wheels", which allow the user to perform various system-dependent operations, or extra buttons or features that can add more control or dimensional input.
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He was the 36th president of the Untied States and his nickname was LBJ
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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A Buffalo wing, hot wing or wing is a chicken wing section (drumette or flat) that is traditionally fried unbreaded and then coated in sauce. Classic Buffalo-style chicken wing sauce is composed of a vinegar-based cayenne pepper hot sauce and butter.[1] Buffalo wings are traditionally served with celery sticks and blue cheese dressing or ranch dressing.
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The Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage (CD-ROM), write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video Compact Discs (VCD), Super Video Compact Discs (SVCD), PhotoCD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced CD. Audio CDs and audio CD players have been commercially available since October 1982.
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The 12-bit PDP-8 was the first successful commercial minicomputer, produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the 1960s. DEC introduced it on 22 March 1965, and sold more than 50,000 systems, the most of any computer up to that date.[1] It was the first widely sold computer in the DEC PDP series of computers (the PDP-5 was not originally intended to be a general-purpose computer).
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The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities
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He was 37th president of the Untied States and he was a Republican.
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The Twenty-sixth Amendmet to the United States Constitution limited the minimum voting age to no more than 18.
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The first email transmission was sent in 1971. Ray Tomlinson, the engineer behind ARPANET's email system and the man who came up with using the @ sign for email, said that the first email he sent was something insignificant.
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A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone and a hand phone) allows calls into the public switched telephone system over a radio link. Early mobile phones were usually bulky and permanently installed in vehicles; they provided limited service because only a few frequencies were available for a geographic area.
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He was the 38th president and his nickname was Jerry.
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he was the 39th president of the United States.
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His nickname was Dutch and he was the 40th president of the Untied Stats of America.
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It is a little hard to determine what was the first portable or laptop computer, the first portable computers did not look like the book-sized and folding laptops that we are familiar with today, however, they were both portable and lapable, and lead to the development of notebook style laptops.
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The Nintendo Entertainment System (also abbreviated as NES or simply called Nintendo) is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987.
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Later his son became president and his nickname was Poppy, He was the 41st president of the United States.
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248.7 million
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This all started over oil and how we went in to attack because we werent getting as much to us anymore.
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The Twenty-seventh Amendment prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives.
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His nickname is Bill and he was the 42nd president of the Untied States.
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His nickname was "W" and he was the 43rd president of the United States. He was president for 8 years.
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iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc.. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle.
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This war is still going on today. It all started because we are trying to getting freedom for Iraq. The USA soilders arew still there.
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This war started after Ahmad Shah Massoud made the plan to attack the twin tower which they did sucessfully and this war is still going on today.
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Barack was the first african american president of the United State and he was born in Hawaii.
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308.7 million
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The inauguration of the President of the United States occurs upon the commencement of a new term of a President of the United States.
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The Gatling gun is one of the best known early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun. It is well known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat.
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John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was a Confederate veteran and an American druggist, and is best known for being the inventor of Coca-Cola.
