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

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Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

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Attack on Pearl Harbor Timeline

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Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

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What Was the Super Bowl’s First Blockbuster Commercial?

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

Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons

Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures

New Jersey history

Also known as: SUM

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economic development of Paterson, N.J.

In Paterson
…legislature in 1791 as the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (SUM); the city was named for Governor William Paterson, one of the framers of the U.S. Constitution.
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