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A Boy and His Fawn
"Short-story Writer and Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Was Born" |
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A Cyclone of a Pitch!
"Baseball Great Cy Young Pitched His First Professional Game" |
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A Fair Speech
"Frederick Douglass' Delivered Speech on Haiti at the World's Fair" |
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America's Librarian
"Archibald MacLeish, Ninth Librarian of Congress, Was Born" |
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America's Library
"The Library of Congress Opened Its Doors" |
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Art That Moves
"Alexander Calder Was Born" |
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Composer Scores!
"Composer Aaron Copland Was Born in Brooklyn, New York" |
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Crossing the East River
"New Yorkers Celebrated the Opening of the Williamsburg Bridge" |
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Faulkner's South
"Novelist William Faulkner Was Born" |
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Fly Like an Eagle, Scout!
"The First Eagle Scout, Arthur R. Eldred" |
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Giving Back a Fortune
"Carnegie Gives Money to Build Libraries" |
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Going to the movies in 1899
""Billy" Bitzer films Stealing a Dinner" |
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Gone to the Birds
"The First Bird Day" |
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Good-Bye Spain, Hello America
"U.S. Raised the Flag in Puerto Rico" |
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Grandma's Stories Inspired a Writer
"Langston Hughes Was Born" |
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Her Truth Is Marching On
"Julia Ward Howe Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters" |
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Living the Life of The Great Gatsby
"Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald Was Born" |
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Look Ma, No Hands
"Wilbur and Orville Wright's First Flight" |
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Monopoly With Real Money
"The Expedition Act Was Passed" |
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Motion Pictures Reach New Heights
"Cameraman Fred A. Dobson Began Filming "The Skyscrapers of New York"" |
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New York Goes Underground
"New York Subway System Opened for Business" |
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Parading Police!
"New York City Police Parade" |
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Put the Ball in the Peach Basket!
"First College Basketball Game" |
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Rough Riders on the Attack
"Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders" |
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Ruger's Cartography
"Panoramic Map Artist Albert Ruger Died" |
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Scat! Jazz Man, Scat!
"Jazz Giant Louis Armstrong Was Born" |
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Separate But Equal
"Plessy v. Ferguson" |
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Shake and Quake
"The Great San Francisco Earthquake" |
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Splish, Splash, I was Taking a Bath!
"Sutro Baths Open in San Francisco" |
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St. Louis Super Hero
"August Anheuser Busch Was Born" |
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Start Your Engines!
"The First American Automobile Race" |
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The Best Baseball Pitcher Ever?
"Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige Was Born" |
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The Day to Pay
"Tax Day" |
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The Father of the Blues
"William Christopher Handy's "Memphis Blues" Was Published" |
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The First Person
"The First Immigrant Landed on Ellis Island" |
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The Legend of Chop Suey
"Chop Suey Was Invented, Fact or Fiction?" |
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The Mystery of Yellow Fever
"U.S. Army Physicians Discovered the Cause of Yellow Fever" |
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The Old Man and the Sea
"Ernest Hemingway Was Born" |
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The Queen of Gospel
"Gospel Singer, Mahalia Jackson Was Born" |
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The Rainier Time Machine
"Mount Rainier in Central Washington Became a National Park" |
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The Underwater Boat
"U.S. Navy Acquired First Submarine" |
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Thornton Hears a Who
"Playwright Thornton Wilder Was Born" |
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Time flies with Nelly Bly
"Nellie Bly Circled the Globe" |
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Train Across the Ocean
"Railway to the Keys" |
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Two Scoops, Please
"Ice Cream Cone Makes Appearance at World's Fair" |
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When Harry Met Beatrice
"Harry Houdini Married Beatrice" |
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Who Planted the Cherry Trees?
"Cherry Trees Planted in Washington, D.C." |
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Who Sank the Maine?
"U.S. Marines Land at Guantanamo Bay" |
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Who Sunk My Battleship?
"U.S.S. Maine Was Sunk" |
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With the Fire of Prophecy
"Booker T. Washington Speaks at the Cotton States and International Exposition" |