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Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

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Which Waters Do You Pass Through When You “Sail the Seven Seas”?

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From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl

bird. mourning dove. pigeon and dove. Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) family Columbidae.

Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons

The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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Horsing Around: 7 of the Weirdest Racehorse Names in History

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Topics

Balmer series Lyman series series limit Pfund series Brackett series Paschen series Balmer-alpha line spectral line fine structure Rydberg constant

Key People

Balmer series of hydrogen lines

Johannes Rydberg

Swedish physicist

Heinrich Kayser

German physicist