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In a square that celebrates Britain's military triumphs stands a reminder of an historic defeat that paved the way for the ...

In fact, the state's oldest elementary school was actually the first in all of North America. Founded in 1639, Mather ...

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who lost the American colonies, died at the age of 82. Advertisement In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven was published. In 1861, Kansas became the 34th state of the United States. It joined as a ...

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