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History.com: History This Week: The Road Less Traveled
August 2, 1915. The poem appears in print for the first time this week, from Kentucky to Pennsylvania to Vermont. Every reader is transported to that same leafy path: "two roads diverged in a yellow wood." The Road Not Taken by Robert...
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History.com: History This Week: Pop Music Pirates
August 14, 1967. Off the coast of England, a group of pirate ships has been fighting to stay afloat. These are pirates of a particular kind-less sword fighting and treasure hunting, more spinning records and dancing late into the night....
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History.com: History This Week: The True Winnie the Pooh
August 24, 1914. A train pulls up to the lumber town of White River, Ontario, carrying a regiment of Canadian troops on board. On the tracks where they disembark is a small black bear cub. An army veterinarian decides to buy the bear and...
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History.com: History This Week: Shaving Russia
History repeats itself this week with an episode from the HISTORY This Week archives: Sept 5, 1698. Tsar Peter the Great of Russia returns home from a year-long European tour. When noblemen, religious figures and friends gather to...
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History.com: History This Week: The Man Who Stole the Mona Lisa
August 21, 1911. On a Monday morning, a department store employee on a Paris street sees a man hurrying by. He carries a white-wrapped package and, as the employee watches, he throws something small and shiny over his shoulder...it's a...
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History.com: History Vault: Cultural Docummentaries
Discover the artists, athletes, architects and more who changed the culture and the world with this collection of 25 cultural documentaries including The Great Ziegfield, The Untold Story of the '90s and Bob Fosse: Dancing On The Edge.
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History.com: What Is the Aclu?
In this video [4:30] learn about what the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) stands for, its history and founders, and some of the biggest cases it has represented. Dive into the Scopes Monkey Trial, Brown v. Board of Education and...
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History.com: Desert One: Preview of the Documentary
This is a preview of Desert One, a documentary about the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran Hostage Crisis. (Video 2:29)