One day the Edisons couldnt find six-year-old Al, as his family called him. They were visiting Als older sister and her husband on their farm. It was just outside of Milan, Ohio. The year was 1853. Suddenly Als uncle had an idea. He ran out to the ba

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Thomas Jefferson is pictured on U.S. nickels. He is also portrayed on the giant Mount Rushmore sculpture in South Dakota. The Jefferson Memorial is a popular landmark in Washington, D.C. Jefferson City, Missouri, and Mount Jefferson in Oregon are amo

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In the fall of 1916, when Amelia was nineteen years old, she boarded a train for the Ogontz School in Pennsylvania. Amelia didnt mind going far away from home. She was starting on a new adventure. The head of the Ogontz School was a woman named Miss

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Amelia Earhart was a pioneer. This doesnt mean she traveled west in a covered wagon or lived in a log cabin. It means she had a special spirit. She liked to be the first to do new things. In the 1920s, Amelia became a pilot. This was in a time when t

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In 1884, at the height of his success, Tom suffered a terrible loss. His wife Mary died of an illness. She was only twenty-nine years old. Tom had his children stay in New York City. His electricity business was there. He wanted to spend as much time

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SIGN LANGUAGE LONG AGO, A GROUP OF DEAF PEOPLE IN PARIS, FRANCE, DEVELOPED THEIR OWN SIGN LANGUAGE. THEN, IN 1755, A TEACHER WHO COULD HEAR, ABB CHARLES MICHEL DE LEPE, LEARNED THESE SIGNS AND ADDED NEW ONES TO FORM A STANDARD SIGN LANGUAGE OF FRENCH

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Zhuge Liang 诸葛壳 Liu Bei resided at Xinye while he was taking shelter under Jing Provinces governor, Liu Biao. Liu Bei visited Sima Hui, who told him, Confucian academics and common scholars, how much do they know about current affairs? Those wh

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Papa Leopold Mozart was very strict. He was a composer and violinist in Salzburg in Austria. When he was finished working for the day, Leopold came home and gave his daughter and son music lessons. Over and over they played what he taught them. They

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More than 200 years ago, there was a little boy who learned to play a musical instrument at the age of three. It was called a clavier, which was an old-fashioned stringed instrument that also had a keyboard. By the time he was five, he was composing

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It was already dark, and the beach at Lowell Park was closed for the day. Dutch Reagan, the seventeen-year-old lifeguard, was helping the park manager, Mr. Graybill, close up the changing rooms when they heard muffled cries and splashing. A swimmer h

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BY 1943, THE U.S.S.R.ALSO KNOWN AS RUSSIA OR THE SOVIET UNIONWAS FIGHTING ON THE SAME SIDE AS GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR II. WHEN THE WAR ENDED IN 1945 WITH GERMANYS DEFEAT, THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE U.S.S

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CHARLES (CHUCK) YEAGER ALSO LOVED FLYING. DURING WORLD WAR II HE WAS A DARING PILOT WHO SHOT DOWN ENEMY PLANES. AFTER THE END OF THE WAR IN 1945, HE WORKED TESTING EXPERIMENTAL PLANES. SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS WANTED TO DESIGN A PLANE THAT COULD GO F

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ON MAY 20, 1927, A YOUNG PILOT NAMED CHARLES LINDBERGH SET OUT FROM LONG ISLAND ALL BY HIMSELF IN A SMALL, SINGLE-ENGINE PLANE TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. IT WAS CALLED THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS. THE TRIP WAS DARING AND DANGEROUS. LINDBERGH HAD NO RAD

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It is July 16, 1969. By 9 A.M. the temperature hits a whopping ninety degrees. Thats just a typical summer morning in central Florida. The heat does not stop a crowd of a million people from coming as close to Cape Kennedy as they can get. That is wh

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Born in Germany, Johann Sebastian Bach was a great musician and composer. His music influenced so many other musicians that he is called the master of masters. He was the father of eleven sonsall of them were accomplished musicians. Although he did n

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Back in Salzburg, Wolfie became the court organist and concertmaster. He wrote music, at his usual fast pace. But he was bored. Then, in 1780, he was asked to compose an Italian opera for the court in Munich, Germany. Now this was exciting! Mozart lo

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If youre lucky enough to live near a museum with a collection of real 18th-century clothes, you can see the kind of fancy outfits Mozart wore. Its amazing to remember that these handsome clothes, usually embroidered, were made entirely by hand. The o

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In 1763, when Wolfie was seven years old, the Mozart family left Salzburg. Setting out on a big sailboat, they glided down the Danube River. They went to the German cities of Stuttgart, Mannheim, Mainz, and Frankfurt. They also traveled by coach and

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