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Lyndon B. Johnson: Medicare

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Listen President Barack Obama speaking before signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act after an introduction by Joe Biden

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John Murtha (left), the chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, conducting a hearing in February 2008.

Senate Appropriations Committee: Inouye, Daniel; Stevens, Ted; Rumsfeld, Donald

Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act

Jeremy Bentham, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1829; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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President Richard M. Nixon smiles and gives the victory sign as he boards the White House helicopter after his resignation on August 9, 1974 in Washington, D.C.

Timeline of the 1970s

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Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen, World War I.

7 Deadliest Weapons in History

Artist interpretation of a Space meteoroid impact. Meteor impact. Asteroid, End of the world, danger, destruction, dinosaur extinct, Judgement Day, Planet Earth, Doomsday Predictions, comet

10 Failed Doomsday Predictions

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Candles Burning On Table In Church

What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?

All Saints Day. All Souls Day. Candles in cemetery in Poland on All Saints Day, November 1. All Souls Day, November 2. Christian church, All Hallows, Solemnity of All Saints, Feast of All Saints, purgatory, Roman Catholic church

7 Unique Burial Rituals Across the World

Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)

All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained

Ahura Mazda - relief of the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda at the ancient ruins of Persepolis in Iran. Also known as Ormazd Zoroastrianism,

Which Religion Is the Oldest?

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Lyndon B. Johnson: Medicare

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

John Murtha (left), the chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, conducting a hearing in February 2008.

Senate Appropriations Committee: Inouye, Daniel; Stevens, Ted; Rumsfeld, Donald

Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act

Jeremy Bentham, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1829; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Listen President Barack Obama speaking before signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act after an introduction by Joe Biden

Follow a bill from a congressional committee to being signed into law by the president of the United States

Learn about the structure of the U.K. Parliament - the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the monarch

Understand how a bill becomes a law in the UK Parliament

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Baldwin, Robert

Robert Baldwin

Canadian statesman

Edith Nourse Rogers

American public official