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Just How Many Oceans Are There?
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution
The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who formulated the Four Freedoms.
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When Was the Periodic Table Invented?
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.
10 Famous Artworks by Leonardo da Vinci
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
New Seven Wonders of the World

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Also Known As Judy Heumann • Judith Ellen Heumann
Born December 18, 1947 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died March 4, 2023 (aged 75) • Washington, D.C. • United States
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