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What Is an Injunction?

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Are There Laws on the High Seas?

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Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

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Why Is Pluto No Longer a Planet?

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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Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

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From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl

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

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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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