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Statue of Liberty dedicated today, October 28, 1886 The French donated the 151 foot high Statue of Liberty, but the […]

The CSS Albemarle was a Confederate ironclad ram built in 1863-64 up the Roanoke River in North Carolina. The Albemarle

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There’s no delicate way to put this: if someone says he is going to hit the head, it means he

First Xerox Copy October 22, 1938 Chester F. Carlson and Otto Kornei succeed in electronically copying the message from a

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The Battle of Saratoga occurred in September and October, 1777, during the second year of the American Revolution. It included