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Spalding: Vernatt's Drain

north dam across the IJsselmeer

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The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.

What If the President Is Impeached?

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Why Do We Say “A Pair of Pants”?

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Timeline and Map of the Panama Canal

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6 of the World's Most Dangerous Birds

Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

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Sir Cornelius Vermuyden

Dutch engineer

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Giovanni Maria Lancisi

Italian physician