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Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today,...
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the...
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August 28, 1963: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...
August 28, 1963: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom begins.Fifty years ago, between 200,000 and 300,000 protesters gathered in Washington, D.C. for a historic march that, 100 years after the...
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September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland begins. One week after...
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland begins.One week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a treaty of non-aggression between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, German forces launched...
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World War II - the European Theatre (September 1, 1939 - May 8,...
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clingstone: Some of the work of Joseph Rock, a National...
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September 7, 1533: Elizabeth I is born. The future Queen...
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September 8, 1951: The Treaty of San Francisco is signed. On...
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September 13, 1229: Ögedei succeeds Genghis Khan as Khagan of...
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September 15, 1963: Ku Klux Klan members bomb the 16th Street...
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Combat of the Giaour and the Pasha (1827), Eugene Delacroix
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unhistorical: September 21, 1937: The Hobbit is published.
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September 23, 1215: Kublai Khan is born. Born Kublai, this...
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The Empress Theodora at the Colosseum (1889), Jean-Joseph...
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September 24, 1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald is born. That is part...
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View Article"But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they...
“But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget… We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from...
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