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Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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6 of the World’s Deadliest Natural Disasters

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Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons

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Attack on Pearl Harbor Timeline

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From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl

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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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Also Known As	human development • life-span psychology

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Key People

John Bowlby

British developmental psychologist and psychiatrist

Mary Salter Ainsworth

American-Canadian developmental psychologist

Howard Gardner

Howard Gardner

American psychologist

Carol Gilligan

American psychologist

Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget

Swiss psychologist

Urie Bronfenbrenner

Russian-born American psychologist

E. Mavis Hetherington

Canadian-born developmental psychologist