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TheUnited States of America is afederal republic of 50states,a federal district and 14territories. It is located mostly in centralNorth America. The U.S. has three land borders, two withCanada and one withMexico, and has sea borders withCuba,the Bahamas, theDominican Republic,Bermuda andRussia, and is otherwise bounded by thePacific Ocean, theBering Sea, theArctic Ocean and theAtlantic Ocean. Of the 50 states, onlyAlaska andHawaii are not contiguous with any other state. The U.S. also has a collection ofdistricts, territories, and possessions in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. Each state has a high level of autonomy according to the system of federalism. The U.S. traces its national origin to thedeclaration by 13 British colonies in1776 that they were one free and independent state. They were recognized as such by theTreaty of Paris in 1783. Since then, the nation has grown to become asuperpower and exerts a high level of economic, political, military, and cultural influence.

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The2010 Sylvania 300 was astock car racing competition that took place on September 19, 2010. Held atNew Hampshire Motor Speedway inLoudon,New Hampshire, the 300-lap race was the twenty-seventh in the2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the first in the ten-raceChase for the Sprint Cup, which ended the season.Clint Bowyer of theRichard Childress Racing team won the race;Denny Hamlin finished second andJamie McMurray came in third.

Brad Keselowski won thepole position, although he was almost immediately passed byTony Stewart at the start of the race. Many Chase for the Sprint Cup participants, includingJimmie Johnson,Kurt Busch, and Hamlin, were in the top ten for most of the race, although some encountered problems in the closing laps. Stewart was leading the race with two laps remaining but ran out of fuel, giving the lead, and the win, to Bowyer. There were twenty-one lead changes among eight different drivers, as well as eightcautions during the race. (Full article...)
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TheStanding Liberty quarter is a25-cent coin that was struck by theUnited States Mint from 1916 to 1930. It succeeded theBarber quarter, which had been minted since 1892. Featuring the goddess ofLiberty on one side and an eagle in flight on the other, the coin was designed by American sculptorHermon Atkins MacNeil.

In 1915, Director of the MintRobert W. Woolley began steps to replace the Barber dime, quarter, and half dollar, as he mistakenly believed that the law required new designs. MacNeil submitted a militaristic design that showed Liberty on guard against attacks. The Mint required modifications to the initial design, and MacNeil's revised version includeddolphins to represent the oceans. In late 1916, Mint officials made major changes to the design without consulting MacNeil. The sculptor complained about the changes after receiving the new issue in January 1917. The Mint obtained special legislation to allow MacNeil to redesign the coin as he desired. One change made by the sculptor was the addition of achain mail vest that covered Liberty's formerly bare breast. (Full article...)
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"Damien" is the tenth episode of thefirst season of the American animated television seriesSouth Park. It originally aired onComedy Central in the United States on February 4, 1998. In the episode, the boys' class is joined by a new student namedDamien, who has been sent by his fatherSatan to findJesus and arrange a boxing match between the two. The majority of South Park's residents bet on Satan to win the match due to his enormous size and muscular physique, but Satan ultimately throws the fight and reveals he bet on Jesus, thus winning everybody's money.

The episode was written by series co-creatorsTrey Parker andMatt Stone, with additional dialogue byDave Polsky, and directed by Parker. The episode serves as a satire on religion, faith and the nature of good and evil, as well as a commentary oncommercialism, thecult of celebrity in America and the nature of children. It was originally conceptualized as aChristmas special, but the original broadcast was pushed forward when Parker and Stone decided instead to make "Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" the season's holiday episode. (Full article...)
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The Cat and the Canary is a 1927 Americansilent comedy horror film directed byPaul Leni. An adaptation ofJohn Willard's 1922black-comedy playof the same name, the film starsLaura La Plante as Annabelle West,Forrest Stanley as Charlie Wilder, andCreighton Hale as Paul Jones. The plot revolves around the death of Cyrus West, who is Annabelle, Charlie, and Paul's uncle, and the reading of hiswill twenty years later. Annabelle is revealed as the heir, but she and the other guests must still face a night in his haunted mansion. The plot thickens when they are informed that alunatic known as the Cat has escaped from an asylum and is hiding in the house.

The film is part of the genre ofcomedy horror films inspired by 1920sBroadway stage plays. Leni's adaptation of Willard's play blended expressionism with humor, a style for which Leni was notable and recognized by critics as unique. His directing style madeThe Cat and the Canary influential in the "old dark house" genre of films popular from the 1930s through the 1950s. The film was one ofUniversal's early horror productions and is considered "the cornerstone of Universal's school of horror". The play has been filmed five other times,most notably in 1939, starringBob Hope andPaulette Goddard. (Full article...)
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North Carolina underway on 3 June 1946. By this time, many of the light anti-aircraft weapons (Bofors 40 mm andOerlikon 20 mm) mounted during the war had been removed, while more modernradars had been mounted on its fore and main masts.

TheNorth Carolina class were a pair offast battleships,North Carolina andWashington, built for theUnited States Navy in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

In planning a new battleship class in the 1930s, the US Navy was heavily constrained by international treaty limitations, which included a requirement that all newcapital ships have astandard displacement of under 35,000 LT (35,600 t). This restriction meant that the navy could not construct a ship with the firepower, armor, and speed that they desired, and the balancing uncertainty that resulted meant that the navy considered fifty widely varying designs. (Full article...)
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Ed, Edd n Eddy is ananimated television series created byDanny Antonucci forCartoon Network and was produced bya.k.a. Cartoon. The series revolves around three friends named Ed, Edd (nicknamed "Double D" to avoid confusion with Ed), and Eddy—collectively known as "the Eds"—who are voiced byMatt Hill,Sam Vincent andTony Sampson respectively. They live in a suburbancul-de-sac in the fictional town of Peach Creek along with fellow neighbourhood children Kevin, Nazz, Sarah, Jimmy, Rolf, Jonny, and the Eds' female adversaries, the Kanker Sisters, Lee, Marie and May. Under the unofficial leadership of Eddy, the trio frequently invents schemes to make money from their peers to purchase their favourite confection,jawbreakers. Their plans usually fail, leaving them in various, often humiliating and painful, predicaments.

Antonucci, anadult cartoonist, was dared to create a children's cartoon. While designing a commercial, he conceivedEd, Edd n Eddy, designing it to resemble classic cartoons from the 1940s–1970s. When pitching the series toNickelodeon, the network declined to give himcreative control, a deal to which Antonucci did not agree. He then pitched the series to Cartoon Network. A deal was made with the network to commission the series under his control, and it premiered on January 4, 1999. During the show's run, several specials and shorts were produced in addition to the regular television series. The series concluded with atelevision film,Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, on November 8, 2009. (Full article...)
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Lucidc. 2004

Shannon Matilda Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an Americanbiochemist and retiredNASA astronaut. She has flown in space five times, including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian space stationMir in 1996, and is the only American woman to have stayed onMir. From 1996 to 2007, Lucid held the record for the longest duration spent in space by an American and by a woman. She was awarded theCongressional Space Medal of Honor in December 1996, making her the tenth person and the first woman to be accorded the honor.

Lucid is a graduate of theUniversity of Oklahoma, where she earned abachelor's degree in chemistry in 1963, a master's degree inbiochemistry in 1970, and aPhD in biochemistry in 1973. She was a laboratory technician at theOklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1964 to 1966, a research chemist atKerr-McGee from 1966 to 1968, and a research associate at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation from 1973 to 1978. (Full article...)
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Icos Corporation (trademarkICOS) was an Americanbiotechnology company and the largest biotechnology company in the U.S. state ofWashington, before it was sold toEli Lilly and Company in 2007. It was founded in 1989 byDavid Blech,Isaac Blech,Robert Nowinski, andGeorge Rathmann, a pioneer in the industry and chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder ofAmgen. Icos focused on the development of drugs to treatinflammatory disorders. During its 17-year history, the company conductedclinical trials of twelve drugs, three of which reached the last phase of clinical trials. Icos also manufacturedantibodies for other biotechnology companies.

Icos is best known for the development oftadalafil (Cialis), a drug used to treaterectile dysfunction. This drug was discovered byGlaxoSmithKline, developed by Icos, and manufactured and marketed in partnership with Eli Lilly. Boosted by a unique advertising campaign led by the Grey Worldwide Agency, sales from Cialis allowed Icos to become profitable in 2006. Cialis was the only drug developed by the company to be approved.LeukArrest, a drug to treatshock, and Pafase, developed forsepsis, were both tested inphase III clinical trials, but testing was discontinued after unpromising results during the trials. Eli Lilly acquired Icos in January 2007, and most of Icos's workers werelaid off soon after.CMC Biologics, a Danishcontract manufacturer, bought the remnants of Icos and retained the remaining employees. (Full article...)
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Emerson "Bud"Dunn (May 15, 1918 – January 11, 2001) was aTennessee Walking Horse trainer from Kentucky who spent most of his career in northern Alabama. Hetrained horses for over forty years and won his first Tennessee Walking HorseWorld Grand Championship at age 74 withDark Spirit's Rebel; at the time, he was the oldest rider to win the honor. He was inducted into the Tennessee Walking Horse Hall of Fame in 1987 and named trainer of the year in 1980 and 1991. In 1999 at age 81, Dunn surpassed his own record for the oldest winning rider by winning his second World Grand Championship, ridingRPM. He died of a heart attack in January 2001. (Full article...)
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The red monorail train passing over 5th Avenue

TheSeattle Center Monorail is anelevated straddle-beammonorail line inSeattle, Washington, United States. The 0.9-mile (1.4 km) monorail runs along 5th Avenue between theSeattle Center andWestlake Center inDowntown Seattle, making no intermediate stops. The monorail is a majortourist attraction but also operates as a regularpublic transit service with trains every ten minutes running for up to 16 hours per day. It usually operates with one train per track, and the entire trip takes approximately two minutes. In 2023, the monorail carried 2.1 million total passengers; it regularly earns a profit that is split between the contractor and the city government.

The monorail was constructed in eight months at a cost of $4.2 million for the 1962Century 21 Exposition, aworld's fair hosted at the Seattle Center. It underwent major renovations in 1988 after the southern terminal was moved from its location overPine Street to inside the Westlake Center shopping mall. The system retains its original fleet of twoAlweg trains from the world's fair; each carries up to 450 people. It was the second daily operating monorail in the United States, preceded by theDisneyland Monorail in 1959, also developed by Alweg. It is owned by the city government, which designated the tracks and trains as ahistoric landmark in 2003. A private contractor has operated the system since 1994, when it replacedKing County Metro, the county's public transit system. (Full article...)
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An election for theUnited States Senate was held by thePennsylvania General Assembly beginning on January 17, 1899, to fill the seat then held byMatthew Quay for a six-year term beginning March 4, 1899. Quay was a candidate for re-election, but he was damaged by a pending indictment for involvement in financial irregularities with state money; his trial took place during the three months that the legislature attempted to resolve the Senate deadlock, and he was acquitted the day it adjourned, having failed to elect a senator. Quay was appointed to the Senate seat by the governor, but the Senate refused to seat him on the grounds that the governor lacked the constitutional authority to make the selection, and the seat remained vacant until the next meeting of the legislature, in 1901, when Quay was elected.

Quay was Pennsylvania'sRepublican political boss, and had served two terms in the Senate. Dissident Republicans and reformers were determined to defeat him for a third term, and sought to elect candidates in the 1898 elections for the legislature. Prominent among the anti-Quay forces was Philadelphia businessmanJohn Wanamaker, who had been defeated for the Republican nominations for senator in 1897 and governor in 1898 through Quay's influence. Wanamaker made speeches against Quay during the 1898 campaign, though he refused to seek the Senate seat himself. (Full article...)
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Long in 1935

Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40thgovernor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as aUnited States senator from 1932 untilhis assassination in 1935. He was aleft-wing populist member of theDemocratic Party and rose to national prominence during theGreat Depression for his vocal criticism of PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt and hisNew Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical. As the political leader ofLouisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and often took forceful action. A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as afascist demagogue.

Long was born in the impoverished north of Louisiana in 1893. After working as a traveling salesman and briefly attending three colleges, he wasadmitted to the bar in Louisiana. Following a short career as an attorney, in which he often represented poor plaintiffs, Long was elected to theLouisiana Public Service Commission. As commissioner, he prosecuted large corporations such asStandard Oil, a lifelong target of his rhetorical attacks. After a hearing in which Long argued before theU.S. Supreme Court,Chief Justice and former presidentWilliam Howard Taft praised him as "the most brilliant lawyer who ever practiced before the United States Supreme Court". (Full article...)
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USSPrincess Matoika (ID-2290) under way in 1919

USSPrincess Matoika (ID-2290) was atransport ship for theUnited States Navy duringWorld War I. Before the war, she was aBarbarossa-class ocean liner that sailed asSS Kiautschou for theHamburg America Line and asSS Princess Alice (sometimes spelledPrinzess Alice) forNorth German Lloyd. After the war she served as theUnited States Army transport shipUSAT Princess Matoika. In post-war civilian service she wasSS Princess Matoika until 1922,SS President Arthur until 1927, andSS City of Honolulu until she was scrapped in 1933.

Built in 1900 for theGerman Far East mail routes, SS Kiautschou traveled between Hamburg and Far East ports for most of her Hamburg America Line career. In 1904, she was traded to competitor North German Lloyd for fivefreighters, and renamed SS Princess Alice. She sailed both transatlantic and Far East mail routes until the outbreak of World War I, when she was interned in the neutral port ofCebu in the Philippines. Seized by the U.S. in 1917, the newly renamed USS Princess Matoika carried thousands of U.S. troops to and from France in U.S. Navy service from 1918 to 1919. As an Army transport after that, she continued to return troops and repatriated the remains of Americans killed overseas in the war. In July 1920 she was a last-minute substitute to carry a large portion of the United States team to the1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. From the perspective of the Olympic team, the trip was disastrous and a majority of the team members published a list of grievances and demands of theAmerican Olympic Committee in an action known today as theMutiny of theMatoika. (Full article...)
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Ho Ho Ho, also known asVH-1 Presents RuPaul: Ho Ho Ho, is aChristmas album and the third studio album by American singer anddrag queen RuPaul. Released on October 28, 1997, by the record labelRhino, it is RuPaul's first album featuring Christmas music and serves as a follow-up to his 1996 albumFoxy Lady. RuPaul co-produced the album withFenton Bailey andRandy Barbato from the production companyWorld of Wonder.Ho Ho Ho consists of thirteen tracks, including ten covers ofChristmas standards andcarols, and three original songs written by Joe Carrano and RuPaul.Music critics frequently described the album as an example ofcamp though RuPaul clarified that it included several more serious covers, specifically "All Alone on Christmas" and "Hard Candy Christmas".

Ho Ho Ho was praised by critics following its release and during retrospective reviews; its cheerful and humorous compositions were frequently cited as the album's highlights, though some commentators responded negatively to the record's use of humor and the lack of clarity in its overall message. It was included in a 2016 parody list discussing thealt-right, the"War on Christmas", and thebathroom bill. The album peaked at number 27 on theHeatseekers Albums Billboard chart, selling a little more than 4,000 copies in one week. To support the record, RuPaul filmed a television special as part of hisVH1 talk showThe RuPaul Show. (Full article...)
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TheStatue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World;French:La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossalneoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned female onLiberty Island inNew York Harbor, withinNew York City. Thecopper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people ofFrance, was designed by French sculptorFrédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and its metal framework built byGustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.

The statue is a figure of a classically draped woman, likely inspired by the Romangoddess of liberty,Libertas. In acontrapposto pose, she holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries atabula ansata inscribedJULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776, inRoman numerals), the date of theU.S. Declaration of Independence. With her left foot she steps on a broken chain andshackle, commemorating thenational abolition of slavery following theAmerican Civil War. After its dedication, the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, seen as a symbol of welcome toimmigrants arriving by sea. (Full article...)
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TheBuffalo nickel orIndian Head nickel is acopper–nickel five-cent piece that was struck by theUnited States Mint from 1913 to 1938. It was designed bysculptor James Earle Fraser.

As part of a drive to beautify the coinage, five denominations of US coins had received new designs between 1907 and 1909. In 1911,Taft administration officials decided to replaceCharles E. Barber'sLiberty Head design for the nickel, and they commissioned Fraser to do the work. They were impressed by Fraser's designs showing aNative American and anAmerican bison. The designs were approved in 1912, but were delayed several months because of objections from the Hobbs Manufacturing Company, which made mechanisms to detectslugs in nickel-operated machines. The company was not satisfied by changes made in the coin by Fraser, and, in February 1913,Treasury Secretary Franklin MacVeagh decided to issue the coins despite the objections. (Full article...)
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (or simplyEl Camino) is a 2019 Americanneo-Western crime thriller film. Part of theBreaking Bad franchise, it serves as asequel andepilogue to the television seriesBreaking Bad. It continues the story ofJesse Pinkman, who partnered with former teacherWalter White throughout the series to build acrystal meth empire based inAlbuquerque, New Mexico. Series creatorVince Gilligan wrote, directed, and co-producedEl Camino, whileAaron Paul reprised his role as Jesse Pinkman. SeveralBreaking Bad actors also reprised their roles, includingJesse Plemons,Krysten Ritter,Charles Baker,Matt Jones,Robert Forster,Jonathan Banks, andBryan Cranston. Forster died on the day of the film's release, making it one of his final on-screen appearances.

Gilligan began considering the story ofEl Camino while writingBreaking Bad's series finale. He approached Paul with the idea for the film in 2017, near the tenth anniversary ofthe show's premiere, and completed the script several months later. Principal photography began in secret inNew Mexico in November 2018, lasting nearly 50 days. The project remained unconfirmed untilNetflix released a trailer on August 24, 2019. (Full article...)
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2016–2019 model

TheTesla Model S is abattery-electric, four-doorfull-size car produced by the American automakerTesla since 2012. The automaker's second vehicle and longest-produced model, the Model S has been described as one of the most influential electric cars in the industry.Car and Driver named it one ofthe best cars of the year in 2015 and 2016. Itsvarious accolades include theMotor Trend Car of the Year Award in 2013.

Tesla started developing the Model S around 2007 under thecodename WhiteStar, withHenrik Fisker appointed as lead designer for the project. After a dispute withElon Musk, Tesla'sCEO, Fisker was replaced byFranz von Holzhausen who, by 2008, had designed the production Model S's exterior. Tesla unveiled aprototype of the vehicle in March 2009 inHawthorne, California. In 2010, Tesla acquired a facility inFremont, California, to produce the Model S, which waspreviously owned byGeneral Motors andToyota.Series manufacture of the car officially began at theTesla Fremont Factory in June 2012. Tesla carried out the final assembly for European markets atits facilities inTilburg, Netherlands, between 2013 and 2021. (Full article...)
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The 2003SummerSlam was aprofessional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV)event produced byWorld Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the 16th annualSummerSlam and took place August 24, 2003, at theAmerica West Arena inPhoenix, Arizona, held for wrestlers from the promotion'sRaw andSmackDown!brand divisions.

Sevenprofessional wrestling matches were set on the event'ssupercard, a scheduling of multiple high-level matches. The firstmain event was anElimination Chamber match, in whichWorld Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeatedChris Jericho,Goldberg,Kevin Nash,Randy Orton, andShawn Michaels to retain his championship. In the other main event, defendingWWE Champion Kurt Angle defeatedBrock Lesnar in astandard wrestling match. Theundercard includedKane defeatingRob Van Dam in aNo Holds Barred match, andEddie Guerrero defending hisUnited States Championship againstChris Benoit,Rhyno, andTajiri. There was also a match that occurred on theSunday Night Heat pre-show. (Full article...)
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CapturedViet Cong soldier, blindfolded and tied in astress position by American forces during theVietnam War, 1967

Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons includingpunishment,extracting a confession,interrogation for information, or intimidating third parties.

Some definitions restrict torture to acts carried out by thestate, while others include non-state actors. Most victims of torture are poor and marginalized people suspected of crimes, although torture againstpolitical prisoners, or during armed conflict, has received disproportionate attention.Judicial corporal punishment andcapital punishment are sometimes seen as forms of torture, but this label is internationally controversial. A variety ofmethods of torture are used, often in combination; the most common form of physical torture is beatings. Beginning in the twentieth century, many torturers have preferred non-scarring orpsychological methods to maintain deniability. (Full article...)
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In thisc. 1772 portrait, Adams points at the Massachusetts Charter, which he viewed as a constitution that protected the peoples' rights.

Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16], 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman,political philosopher, and aFounding Father of the United States. He was a politician incolonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became theAmerican Revolution, a signatory of theDeclaration of Independence and other founding documents, and one of the architects of the principles ofAmerican republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, PresidentJohn Adams. He founded theSons of Liberty.

Adams was born inBoston, brought up in a religious and politically active family. A graduate ofHarvard College, he was an unsuccessful businessman and tax collector before concentrating on politics. He was an influential official of theMassachusetts House of Representatives and the Boston Town Meeting in the 1760s, and he became a part of a movement opposed to theBritish Parliament's efforts to tax theBritish American colonies without their consent. His 1768Massachusetts Circular Letter calling for colonial non-cooperation prompted the occupation of Boston by British troops, eventually resulting in theBoston Massacre of 1770. Adams and his colleagues devised acommittee of correspondence system in 1772 to help coordinate resistance to what he saw as the British government's attempts to violate theBritish Constitution at the expense of the colonies, which linked like-mindedPatriots throughout theThirteen Colonies. Continued resistance to British policy resulted in the 1773Boston Tea Party and the coming of the American Revolution. Adams was actively involved withcolonial newspapers publishing accounts of colonial sentiment over British colonial rule, which were fundamental in uniting the colonies. (Full article...)
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Stengel in 1957

Charles Dillon "Casey"Stengel (/ˈstɛŋɡəl/; July 30, 1890 – September 29, 1975) was an American professionalbaseball player andmanager inMajor League Baseball (MLB). Aright fielder, he played 14 seasons in the major leagues. Subsequently, he managed for 25 seasons, most notably for theNew York Yankees during the 1950s and later for the expansionNew York Mets. Nicknamed "the Ol' Perfessor", he was elected to theBaseball Hall of Fame in1966.

Stengel was born inKansas City, Missouri, in 1890. In 1910, he began a professional baseball career that would span over half a century. After almost three seasons in theminor leagues, Stengel reached the major leagues late in 1912, as anoutfielder, for theBrooklyn Dodgers. His six seasons there saw some success, among them playing for Brooklyn's 1916National League championship team. During this time he also developed a reputation as a clown. After repeated clashes over pay with the Dodgers owner,Charlie Ebbets, Stengel was traded to thePittsburgh Pirates in 1918; however, he enlisted in the Navy that summer, for the remainder of World War I. After returning to baseball, he continued his pay disputes, resulting in trades to thePhiladelphia Phillies (in 1919) and to theNew York Giants (in 1921). There, he learned much about baseball from the manager,John McGraw, and had a number of highlights in his career, including hitting aninside-the-park home run in Game 1 of the1923 World Series to defeat the Yankees. His major league playing career ended with theBoston Braves in 1925, after which he began a career as a manager. (Full article...)
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The cover to the 1924 Rose Bowl program

The1924 Rose Bowl was a postseason Americancollege football bowl game played between theindependent Navy Midshipmen and theWashington Huskies, a member of thePacific Coast Conference (PCC). The game took place on January 1, 1924, at theRose Bowl stadium inPasadena, California, closing the1923 college football season. The game opened in front of approximately 40,000 people and ended in a 14–14 tie. It was the first post-season bowl game for both teams. The 1924 game was the tenth edition of theRose Bowl, which had first been played in 1902. Following theinaugural game's blowout score, football was replaced with chariot races until 1916. The Rose Bowl stadium had been constructed in 1923, making this edition the second game played in the arena.

The game's organizers had previously selected a team from theEast Coast and theWest Coast, and asked the Washington Huskies to represent the West Coast. Washington requested that the Navy Midshipmen be their opponents, and Navy accepted. Washington selected Navy in favor of several teams from the east which had amassed better records. Both teams had suffered only a single loss during the season, but Washington had won eight games compared with Navy's five, although Navy had also amassed two ties. Predictions gave Washington a slight advantage in the game due to the weight difference between the teams: the Washington players were on average 10 pounds (4.5 kg) heavier than those of Navy. (Full article...)
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Hemingway in 1948

Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ˈhɛmɪŋweɪ/HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist,short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics ofAmerican literature, and he was awarded the1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Hemingway was raised inOak Park, Illinois, a suburb ofChicago. After high school, he spent six months as a reporter forThe Kansas City Star before enlisting in theRed Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on theItalian Front inWorld War I and was seriously wounded by shrapnel in 1918. In 1921, Hemingway moved to Paris, where he worked as aforeign correspondent for theToronto Star and was influenced by themodernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community. His debut novel,The Sun Also Rises, was published in 1926. In 1928, Hemingway returned to the U.S., where he settled inKey West, Florida. His experiences during the war supplied material for his 1929 novelA Farewell to Arms. (Full article...)
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Aliens is a 1986science fiction action film written and directed byJames Cameron. It is the sequel to the 1979 science fiction horror filmAlien, and the second film in theAlien franchise. Set in the far future, it starsSigourney Weaver asEllen Ripley, the sole survivor ofan alien attack on her ship. When communications are lost with a human colony on the moon where her crew first encountered the alien creatures, Ripley agrees to return to the site with a unit of Colonial Marines to investigate.Michael Biehn,Paul Reiser,Lance Henriksen, and Carrie Henn are featured in supporting roles.

Despite the success ofAlien, its sequel took years to develop due to lawsuits, a lack of enthusiasm from20th Century Fox, and repeated management changes. Although relatively inexperienced, Cameron was hired to write a story forAliens in 1983 on the strength of his scripts forThe Terminator (1984) andRambo: First Blood Part II (1985). The project stalled again until new Fox executiveLawrence Gordon pursued a sequel. On an approximately $18.5 million budget,Aliens beganprincipal photography in September 1985 and concluded in January 1986. The film's development was tumultuous and rife with conflicts between Cameron and the British crew atPinewood Studios. The difficult shoot affected the composer,James Horner, who was given little time to record the music. (Full article...)

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Seals of the U.S. states (1876)
Image credit: A.J. Connell Litho.
Alithograph from 1876, showing theseals of the then-47 U.S. states and territories as well as the District of Columbia. Some of theseseals have changed since this image was created.
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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Photo:Alexander Gardner; Restoration:Lise Broer
On July 7, 1865, atFort McNair inWashington, D.C.,Mary Surratt,Lewis Powell,David Herold, andGeorge Atzerodt (shown left-to-right) were hanged for their roles in theassassination ofU.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Eight people were convicted for the crime; three others were sentenced to life imprisonment, with the last receiving a six-year sentence. Mary Surratt's sonJohn was able to escape and was never convicted for his role. His mother was the first woman to beexecuted by the United States federal government.
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Philip Francis Thomas
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Philip Francis Thomas (12 September 1810 – 2 October 1890) was an American lawyer and politician. He served in theMaryland House of Delegates and was the28th governor of Maryland from 1848 to 1851. In 1860, he was appointed as the 23rdUnited States secretary of the treasury, in PresidentJames Buchanan's administration. He held the post for only one month, resigning after he failed to obtain a loan to pay the interest on the bonded public debt. After unsuccessfully standing for election to theUnited States Senate in 1878, he returned to the Maryland House of Delegates and later resumed the practice of law.
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Utah Territory
Illustration credit: Henry Mitchell; restored byAndrew Shiva
TheUtah Territory was aU.S. territory in theWestern United States that existed from its creation on September 9, 1850, to its admission to the Union on January 4, 1896 as theState of Utah. This picture shows the Utah Territory's historical coat of arms, as illustrated by American engraver Henry Mitchell inState Arms of the Union, published in 1876 byLouis Prang. Theescutcheon depicts a beehive, representing the state's industrious and hard-working inhabitants, andsego lilies symbolizing peace.
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Richard Croker
Artist: Udo J. Keppler; Restoration:Jujutacular
This 1898 cartoon fromPuck depictsRichard Croker, an American politician who was a leader of New York City'sTammany Hall, as the sun, with politicians and people from various professions revolving around him. Croker's greatest political success was his bringing about the 1897 election ofRobert A. Van Wyck as first mayor of the five-borough "greater" New York.
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United States Constitution
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The first page of the original handwritten text of theUnited States Constitution, which tookalmost four months to draft and over three years to ratify. The firstConstitutional Convention began on May 25, 1787, with aquorum at thePennsylvania State House inPhiladelphia to revise theArticles of Confederation. Instead the delegates wrote a new constitution, finishing on September 17 of that year, but itsratification by all 13 states was not completed until January 10, 1791. Since then27 amendments have been made.

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United States Naval Academy map
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A map of theUnited States Naval Academy, as it appeared in 1924. Established in 1845, theservice academy educates and prepares officers for commissioning into theUnited States Navy and theUnited States Marine Corps. During the 1920s, the academy's athletics program began its era of success, taking a gold medal at the1920 Summer Olympics and tying theUniversity of Washington in the1924 Rose Bowl.
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Martin Van Buren
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Martin Van Buren (December 5, 1782 – July 24, 1862) was an American statesman who served as the eighthpresident of the United States from 1837 to 1841. A founder of theDemocratic Party, he won the1836 presidential election with the endorsement of popular outgoing PresidentAndrew Jackson and the organizational strength of his party. He lost his1840 reelection bid to theWhig Party nomineeWilliam Henry Harrison, thanks in part to the poor economic conditions surrounding thePanic of 1837, afinancial crisis that touched off a majordepression. Thisline engraving of Van Buren was produced around 1902 by theDepartment of the Treasury'sBureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) as part of aBEP presentation album of the first 26 presidents.
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Art and engraving on United States banknotes
Engraving credit:Charles Burt, afterJohn Gadsby Chapman; restored byAndrew Shiva
Artists producingart and engraving on United States banknotes transitioned tosteel engraving, which enabled a rapid advance in banknote design and printing, during the 19th century. This vignette, engraved byCharles Burt for theDepartment of the Treasury'sBureau of Engraving and Printing, depicts the baptism ofPocahontas, and is a copy of an 1840 painting byJohn Gadsby Chapman on display in theUnited States Capitol rotunda. From 1875, the vignette was used on the reverse oftwenty-dollar bills as part of the first issue ofNational Bank Notes.
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Millard Fillmore
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Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13thpresident of the United States, succeeding to the presidency in July 1850 upon the death of the incumbentZachary Taylor. Born into poverty with little formal education, he became a successful attorney and was elected to theUnited States House of Representatives in 1832. Never an advocate of slavery, he felt duty-bound as president to support theCompromise of 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states. He sought election to a full term in 1852, but was passed over by theWhigs in favor ofWinfield Scott. Thisline engraving of Fillmore was produced around 1902 by theDepartment of the Treasury'sBureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) as part of aBEP presentation album of the first 26 presidents.
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Wes Brady, ex-slave
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A 1937 photograph of Wes Brady, a formerslave. Bornc. 1850, Brady had been owned by a farmer in Marshall, Texas beforeemancipation. As a young boy he worked the fields, picking cotton. He recalled "The rows was a mile long and no matter how much grass was in them, if you leaves one sprig on your row they beats you nearly to death."

This portrait is part of theSlave Narrative Collection, a massive compilation ofslave narratives – containing 10,000 typed pages representing more than 2,000 interviews – which was undertaken by the USFederal Writers' Project of theWorks Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938.
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Dust Bowl
Photograph:Dorothea Lange. Restoration:Adam Cuerden.
TheDust Bowl was a period of severedust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. Drought and a failure to applydryland farming methods to preventwind erosion caused the phenomenon. The drought came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–1940, but some regions of the high plains experienced drought conditions for as many as eight years.

This photograph, titledBroke, baby sick, and car trouble!, was taken byDorothea Lange in 1937 and depicts a Missouri migrant family'sjalopy stuck near Tracy, California.
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Construction of Mount Rushmore
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Theconstruction of Mount Rushmore, aUnited States National Monument depicting the heads of fourU.S. Presidents carved into theBlack Hills ofSouth Dakota, began on August 10, 1927, with the bust ofGeorge Washington. This first phase was completed in seven years (partial completion in 1932 shown here), culminating in its unveiling in 1934. The remaining three heads—Thomas Jefferson,Abraham Lincoln, andTheodore Roosevelt—took only an additional seven years to complete.
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Keypunch
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A woman using aHollerith pantograph, a machine developed byHerman Hollerith for the punching of cards, providingdata which could then be processed. Such tools were used in the1890 United States census, the first time thecountry's census was tabulated by machine.
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LockheedF-117 Nighthawk
Photograph credit: Aaron Allmon II
TheLockheedF-117 Nighthawk is a semi-retired American single-seat, twin-enginestealth andattack aircraft that was developed byLockheed's secretiveSkunk Works division and operated by theUnited States Air Force. Itsmaiden flight took place in 1981, and it was the first operational aircraft to be designed aroundstealth technology. ThisF-117 was photographed flying overNellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
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Roman Vishniac was a renownedRussian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture ofJews inCentral andEastern Europe before theHolocaust.

Vishniac was an extremely diverse photographer, an accomplishedbiologist and a knowledgeable collector and teacher ofart history. Throughout his life, he made significant scientific contributions to the fields ofphotomicroscopy andtime-lapse photography. Vishniac was very interested in history, especially that of his ancestors. In turn, he was strongly tied to his Jewish roots and was aZionist later in life.

Roman Vishniac won international acclaim for his photography: his pictures from theshtetlach and Jewish ghettos, celebrity portraits, and images of microscopic biology. He is known for his bookA Vanished World, published in 1983, which was one of the first such pictorial documentations of Jewish culture in Eastern Europe from that period and also for his extreme humanism, respect and awe for life, sentiments that can be seen in all aspects of his work.

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Downtown Cleveland Skyline, taken from the Superior Viaduct

Cleveland is the second most populouscity in theU.S. state ofOhio and the 53rd most populous city in the nation. It was founded in 1796 near the mouth of theCuyahoga River, and became amanufacturing center owing to its location at the head of numerouscanals andrailroad lines. With the decline ofheavy manufacturing, Cleveland's businesses have diversified into theservice economy, including the financial services,insurance, andhealthcare sectors. Cleveland is also noted for its association withrock music; the city is home to theRock and Roll Hall of Fame.

As of the2000 census, the city proper had a total population of 478,403 and is the center ofGreater Cleveland, the largestmetropolitan area in Ohio.

In studies conducted byThe Economist in 2005, Cleveland andPittsburgh were ranked as the mostlivable cities in the United States, and the city was ranked as the best city for business meetings in the continental U.S. The city faces continuing challenges, in particular from concentratedpoverty in some neighborhoods and difficulties in the funding and delivery of high-qualitypublic education.

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O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?

—Francis Scott Key,The Star-Spangled Banner,1814

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1863 –American Civil War:Battle of Chattanooga begins –Union forces led by GeneralUlysses S. Grant reinforce troops atChattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attackConfederate troops.
1889 – The firstjukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon inSan Francisco.
1914 –Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw fromVeracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to theTampico Affair.
1981 –Iran–Contra affair:Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving theCentral Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and supportContra rebels inNicaragua.

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Thecuisine of the Southern United States encompasses diverse food traditions of several subregions, including thecuisines ofSoutheastern Native American tribes,Tidewater,Appalachian,Ozarks,Lowcountry,Cajun,Creole,African American cuisine andFloribbean,Spanish,French,British,Ulster-Scots,German andMiddle Eastern cuisine. Elements of Southern cuisine have spread to other parts of the United States, influencing other types ofAmerican cuisine. (Full article...)

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View of theMidtown Manhattan skyline, looking north from theEmpire State Building.

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... that themaize weevil(pictured) is a serious pest ofmaize in the United States, and also infests standing crops andcereals in alltropical areas of the world?
... thatpresidential advisorJohn P. Lewis argued thataid to developing nations was a necessary component of American foreign policy, despite the budgetary costs and the potential for misuse?
... that in his dissenting opinion in the case ofTaylor v. Beckham,U.S. Supreme Court justiceJohn Marshall Harlan wrote that the right to hold elected offices should be considered part of the definition of "liberty" and protected by theFourteenth Amendment?

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