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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

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The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church

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

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

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July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.

Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

Statue of Nostradamus

Nostradamus and His Prophecies

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Also Known As	surface runoff

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river system black water stream overland flow storm sewage interflow base flow Dunne overland flow Horton overland flow law of stream lengths law of stream numbers condensation nucleus freezing nucleus precipitation evapotranspiration

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