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9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Helen Keller

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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat: what happened next?

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The 5 most notorious presidents in US history

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The Hughes Glomar Explorer was a salvage vessel disguised as a mining ship, designed to secretly recover Soviet sub K-129

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Life in bondage Formerly enslaved African-Americans sit for a photograph in Virginia, c1850. At that time, 4 million people were still enslaved across the US, as debates around abolition raged on both sides of the Atlantic (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

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