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1
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What year did Armstrong walk on the moon?

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July 20, 1969 (Sunday)

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What year did Jason Day win his first major golf tournament?

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2015

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What Year was Obama born?

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1961

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What day and year did John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die?

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July 4, 1826

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What year did the Beatles start their British Invasion by playing on the Ed Sullivan Show?

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1962

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What is the the most recent year that a Catholic Pope retired?

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2013

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What year was the Battle of the Bay MLB World Series?

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1989

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When did Reagan tell Gorbechev to tear down that wall? (Berlin Wall)

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1989

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What year did the Simpsons get their own show?

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1989

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What year did the major league baseball players go on strike?

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1994

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Who sings Love Me Tender in 1956?

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Elvis Presley

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What year did the musical movie A Sound of Music come out in theaters? It won an Oscar Award for best picture.

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1965

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Abraham Lincoln was elected president in November of what year?

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1860

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The Civil War ended in this year.

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1865

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In this year Christopher Columbus set out from Spain to look for a short route to India.

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1492

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October 24th of this year the United Nations was formed.

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1945

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The old south meeting house was the organizing point for this December 16, 1773 event.

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Boston Tea Party

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What famous battle was in 1863?

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Gettysburg

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The old south meeting house was the organizing point for this December 16, 1773 event.

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Boston Tea Party

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When is Mark Twain’s birthday?

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November 30th, 1835

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In 1719 Irish immigrants introduced this crop to New England at Londonderry, New Hampshire.

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Potato

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What disaster happened in Shogohama, 2011?

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Tsunami

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What exploded into a cloud of fiery ash in 79 AD?

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Mount Vesuvius

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What year was the Great Chicago Fire?

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1871

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What year was the Magna Carta signed by King John of England?

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1215

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What year was the Boston Tea Party?

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1773

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What year was the French Revolution?

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1789

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May 17, 1957 Martin Luther King gave a speech on the third anniversary of the passage of this case.

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Brown v. The Board of Education

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Women did not get the right to vote until this year.

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1920

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What century did George Washington Carver discover many uses for peanuts?

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20th (he died in 1943)

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Louis Braille invented the Braille alphabet in this century.

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19th (Louis Braille was born January 4th, 1809)

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Who was born on January 15th 1929 and was shot and killed in 1968?

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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33
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Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal spectacles in what century?

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18th century

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In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American to earn a degree in this.

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Medicine

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In 1421 the first one of these was written for inventions.

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Patents

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36
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Booker T. Washington founded this institute.

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Tuskegee Institute

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37
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Bad news for the Hindenburg. The airship burst and plunged to the ground in what year?

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1937

38
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What year was Jamestown settled and became part of the Virginia colony?

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1607

39
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In 1620 the pilgrims landed on a rocky coast, what did they name the place?

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Plymouth

40
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Who was the leader of the American Revolution?

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George Washington

41
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Paul Revere lit how many lanterns if the English left Boston by sea?

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2

42
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In Scotland, 1847 this inventor of the telephone was born.

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Alexander Graham Bell

43
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What year was the Mayflower Compact signed?

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1620

44
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Book Title: I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor in this year.

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1941

45
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Book Title: I Survived the Hurricane Katrina, this year.

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2005

46
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Book Title: I Survived the Japanese Tsunami in this year.

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2011

47
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Book Title: I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic in this year.

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1912

48
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Book Title: I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, in this year.

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1863

49
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Book Title: I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, in this year.

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79 A.D.

50
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Who was known as “The Last King of America”

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George III

51
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Colonists protested the Sugar Act of 1764 by famously saying, “No taxation without” this

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Representation

52
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On May 14, 1804 Lewis and Clark departed this city to begin their expedition to the Pacific Northwest

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St. Louis

53
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The Pilgrims could tell you this is Massachusetts’ official state flower.

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The Mayflower

54
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The Americans were protesting a tax & a monopoly with this Dec. 16, 1773 event.

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The Boston tea party.

55
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2015: Dates on the Calendar: Patriot Day on this date includes a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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September 11th

56
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Date Nut: It was Sept. 30, 1927 and this legend hit humber 60

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Babe Ruth

57
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Date Nut: On Feb. 23, 1945 6 U.S. servicemen raised the American flag on this island; sounds like a good photo op

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Iwo Jima

58
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What did the residence of the U.S. President become formally known as in 1901?

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the White House

59
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A history lesson: The Civil Rights Act and the Watts Riots happened during this decade of hope tragedy

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1960’s

60
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James Buchanan was the first to receive one of these from overseas.

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Telegram

61
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James a Madison was the primary author of this document.

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The U.S. Constitution

62
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For the 1997 movie Air Force One starring Harrison Ford, the film company painted a rented type of this cargo plane to look like the President’s aircraft.

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Boeing 747

63
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Air Force One has advanced technology that allows the aircraft to function as this, if the U.S. Is attacked.

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A Command Center

64
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Work doesn’t stop on Airforce One. The plane has 80 of these and over 238 miles of cabling.

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Telephones

65
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Women. On U.S. Stamps: 1907: A Powhatan princess

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Pocahontas

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Native Americans: South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian reservation has a 4-year college serving the Oglala branch of this tribe

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The Sioux

67
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Old King Coal: In the 1300’s the Southwest Indian tribes named for these dwellings used coal in pottery making.

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Puebla

68
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A History Lesson: In 1608 this captain and a few other colonists left Jamestown and explored the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries

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John Smith

69
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Museums: What’s called “The Oldest House Museum Complex” is located in this Florida city, the USA’s oldest city

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St. Augustine

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American History: This colony, established by Pilgrims in 1620, celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621

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Plymouth

71
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American History: The first permanent English settlement in the American colonies

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Jamestown

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The American Revolution: Washington and his men wintered at this Pennsylvania site in 1777-‘78, not only freezing but thinking over recent defeats

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Valley Forge

73
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State of the Estate: George Washington’s Mount Vernon

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Virginia

74
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VOLCANOES: Soon after this volcano erupted in 1980, the city of Spokane was plunged into darkness due to the ash

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Mount St. Helens

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EXTREME GEOGRAPHY: In July 1913 this appropriately named California valley recorded the highest temperature ever in the U.S., 134°

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Death Valley

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OUR HISTORICAL DOCUMENT: The 1803 treaty for this deal stated that France would give up all military posts in New Orleans

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Louisiana Purchase

77
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March 2018, retailer blank announced plans to liquidate almost all of its U.S. stores.

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Toys R’ Us

78
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CROSSWORD CLUES “S”: Buddha’s personal given name (10)

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Siddhartha

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POKEY, MAN, GO: This Confederate president was captured on May 10, 1865 and put in the pokey in Fort Monroe, Virginia

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Jefferson Davis

80
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HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES: Her May 24 birthday first became a holiday in Canada in 1845 and it’s still celebrated today

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Queen Victoria

81
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LET’S SET SOME BOUNDARIES: The Mason-Dixon Line was originally the boundary between these 2 states

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Pennsylvania and Maryland

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1983–30 YEARS AGO: Sally Ride rode into history aboard this as the first American woman in space

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The Challenger

83
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NAME THE DECADE: Sally Ride rides in space

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’80s

84
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YMCA: While at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass., James Naismith developed this sport

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basketball

85
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JEFFERSON DAVIS: Jefferson Davis was elected to a 6-year term as President of the CSA early in this year

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1861

86
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AMERICAN HISTORY: It was drawn in the 1760s to settle border disputes between Maryland and Pennsylvania

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Mason-Dixon Line

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SHE DID IT!: She was the first American woman to travel in space

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Sally Ride

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“HOW”-“D”: Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were lost looking for this island that’s 2,000 miles southwest of Honolulu

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Howland Island

89
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RAISE THE FLAG, PLEASE: Site of a famous flag raising, Mount Suribachi s found on this isle

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Iwo Jima

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PULITZER PRIZE JOURNALISM: Photography, 1945: Joe Rosenthal, for this image of Marines doing this on Mount Suribachi

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the flag raising of Iwo Jima

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PRESIDENTIAL FIRSTS: He was the first president to preside over 14 states

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George Washington

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