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american history
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Link: Current Events As Explained By Facebook Feeds
http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6699476/news-feed-his...
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You have to laugh at these. Or you’ll cry.
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Link: Pres. John Tyler's Grandchildren Are Still Alive
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/pres-john-tylers...
Try to do the math on this: John Tyler was born in 1790, and became the 10th president of the United States. And two of his grandchildren are still alive!
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Link: 37 American Vintage Travel Posters
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/113797
America used to look an awful lot like Hoth. Before photography was cheap and widespread, companies relied on brightly colored, stylized art to draw in the tourists.
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Link: 5 Facts About Pearl Harbor And The USS Arizona
http://www.history.com/news/2011/12/07/5-facts-about-pear...
On this date in 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, launching one of the deadliest attacks in American history. Commemorate the 70th anniversary by exploring little-known facts about the attack.
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Link: Barry H. Landau: Fall Of A Master Thief
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/02/barry-h-...
In real life, men that steal millions of dollars in priceless American documents aren't that bright. But neither are the curators who overlooked the theft because they were distracted by cupcakes.
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Kirk Cameron Fails American History
Celebrity Buzz Actor/right winger Kirk Cameron gave an audience a trick question about where the origin of the phrase “four score and seven years ago”. He then promptly answered his own question incorrectly.
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A (Very) Incomplete History Told By Cats
Culture Buzz What am I that I would compile this? Covering roughly a thousand years of history in nine photos.
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Link: American History As Explained By An 8-Year-Old
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1787168
American history is much more exciting through the eyes of a 4th-grader. Case and point: These pictures.
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Link: New Nixon Tapes!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/us/politics/24nixon.htm...
Newly disclosed tapes recorded in the Oval Office in 1973 shed light on an intense moment in American history. Whoa, new Richard Nixon tapes just leaked and they're totally outrageous. Republicans really aren't looking so good these days.
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Video: George Washington
For President's Day: a classic American history lesson. The British better beware…
