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History.com: Muhammad Ali: Boxing Legend ... And 2 Time Grammy Nominee

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In 1964, the fighter was up for the music honor for a comedy album. Twelve years later, he was nominated again. The accomplishments of Muhammad Ali are renowned: Olympic gold medalist, heavyweight boxing champion, humanitarian, civil...
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History.com: 7 Things You Might Not Know About the Us Supreme Court

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Find out seven surprising facts about how the nation's highest court works and how it's changed over the years.
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History.com: Controversial Supreme Court Nominations Through History

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Presidents dating back to George Washington have faced opposition to their nominees for the nation's highest court. The justices who sit on the Supreme Court of the United States hold a unique governing power, making their selection...
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History.com: Has a u.s. Supreme Court Justice Ever Been Impeached?

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Supreme Court justices serve for life, unless they resign, die or are impeached and removed from office. The reason for their lifetime tenure is to enable them to make decisions free from any pressure by the executive or legislative...
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History.com: Why Do 9 Justices Serve on the Supreme Court?

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The Constitution doesn't stipulate how many justices should serve on the Court, in fact, that number fluctuated until 1869.
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History.com: George Washington: Documentaries

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers three documentaries about George Washington including the following: "Loyal Subject" [1:24:00], "Rebel Commander" [1:23:00], and "Father of His Country" [1:26:00].
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History.com: How the 2000 Election Came Down to a Supreme Court Decision

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As Florida's electoral votes became too close to call, controversy ensued over hanging chads, dimpled chads and butterfly bullets. Five hundred thirty-seven votes. That's all that separated Democrat Al Gore and his Republican challenger...
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History.com: This Is How Fdr Tried to Pack the Supreme Court

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When his New Deal legislation kept getting struck down, FDR proposed a law targeting justices over the age of 70.
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History.com: Nuremberg Trials

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Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949. The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking...
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History.com: What Was the Curse of the Bambino and How Was Baseball's Greatest Hex Broken?

For Students 9th - 10th
Weeks after a foul ball bloodied a teen who lived in Babe Ruth's former farmhouse, the Boston Red Sox ended an 86-year title drought. Before gaining his greatest fame with the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth was a star with the rival Boston...
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History.com: 10 Things You May Not Know About the Nuremberg Trials

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The post-World War II trials marked the first-ever prosecutions for genocide and crimes against humanity. Held directly after World War II, the Nuremberg Trials were a series of 13 military tribunals in which nearly 200 German...
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History.com: Why the Construction of the Panama Canal Was So Difficult and Deadly

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A staggering 25,000 workers lost their lives. And artificial limb makers clamored for contracts with the canal builders. In a quest to fulfill a centuries-old dream to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the builders of the Panama...
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History.com: 10 World Engineering Marvels

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These remarkable feats of design and construction transformed the ways that people travel, communicate and live. For thousands of years, mankind has engineered remarkable structures such as the pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of...
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History.com: How Eleanor Roosevelt Pushed for a Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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In the wake of World War II's horrors, Roosevelt saw the need to support refugees and affirm the right to education, shelter, and medical care. Roosevelt was there to speak about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document...
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History.com: How Jfk's 'Viva Kennedy' Campaign Galvanized the Latino Vote

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When JFK faced a tight race for the White House in 1960, he turned to a group of Americans who had long been overlooked by political campaigns. One way the nation's first Catholic president sought to gain an edge in the close contest was...
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History.com: 8 Famous Figures Who Believed in Communicating With the Dead

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Spiritualism's popularity waxed and waned throughout the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, and surged on the heels of major wars and pandemics. While belief in an afterlife is a cornerstone of many ancient and...
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History.com: What Prehistoric Cave Paintings Reveal About Early Human Life

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Some of the oldest known art may hint at the beginning of language development, while later examples portray narratives with human and animal figures. What does the oldest known art in the world tell us about the people who created it?...
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History.com: Woodlawn Jane Doe: How Scraps of Dna and a Genealogy Website Solved a 45 Year Old Mystery

For Students 9th - 10th
This undated photo provided by the Baltimore County Police Department shows Margaret Fetterolf, of Alexandria, Va., who family members say went missing in 1975. Baltimore County Police said new DNA testing showed Fetterolf was the girl...
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History.com: Fatty Arbuckle and the Birth of the Celebrity Scandal

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This New Yorker article discusses Fatty Arbuckle, a silent-film era performer at the height of his fame, is arrested in San Francisco for the rape and murder of aspiring actress Virginia Rappe. Arbuckle was later acquitted by a jury, but...
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History.com: How Did Baseball's Seventh Inning Stretch Originate?

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The American tradition might date to President William Howard Taft in 1910, but it could have started in 1869. The seventh-inning stretch, when fans rise from their seats for a brief break after the top of that inning is complete, is as...
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History.com: How Us Presidents Have Communicated With the Public From the Telegraph to Twitter

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From carefully staged speeches to radio to Twitter, U.S. presidents have always leveraged the cutting edge to connect directly with voters. Two centuries before Twitter, U.S. presidents understood the power of communicating directly with...
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History.com: The Mariel Boatlift: How Cold War Politics Drove Thousands of Cubans to Florida in 1980

For Students 9th - 10th
After Fidel Castro loosened emigration policies, some 125,000 Cubans landed on U.S. shores over a span of five months. The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 was a mass emigration of Cubans to the United States. The exodus was driven by a stagnant...
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History.com: When Apollo 10 Nearly Crashed Into the Moon

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The mission that paved the way for the Apollo 11 moon landing came close to ending in disaster. Commander Tom Stafford and Lunar Module Pilot Gene Cernan had just returned from their close pass by the lunar surface and were readying to...
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History.com: 5 Terrifying Moments During the Apollo 11 Moon Landing Mission

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The astronaut crew had to troubleshoot a series of problems throughout the historic 1969 flight. This historic exchange on July 20, 1969 marked the end of a perilous journey to the lunar surface, but a multitude of threats still faced...