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Faculty Forum Online: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZVxcoS1etE&t=19m45s
Institute Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky, a prolific author, political activist, and philosopher, is one of MIT’s greatest scientists. He created the field ...
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The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia - Junius P. Rodriguez - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Qs7GAwwdzyQC&pg=PR18
In one easy-access resource, The Louisiana Purchase brings together the work of over 100 experts covering historical figures, relevant legal and historical concepts, states that formed in the new territory, frontier outposts, and the Native Americans…
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Do You Believe in Rock and Roll?: Essays on Don McLean’s “American Pie” - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=l8UynHJQtEAC&pg=PA30&dq=%22The+Weavers%22+%22Psalm+137%22#v=onepage
Since its release in 1971, Don McLean’s song “American Pie” has become an indelible part of U.S. culture. It has sparked countless debates about the references within the lyrics; been celebrated as a chronicle of American life from the late 1950s through…
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The Telephone and Its Several Inventors: A History - Lewis Coe - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=b7M5AnlZJYcC&pg=PA138
On March 7, 1876, the U.S. Patent Office issued to a young inventor named Alexander Graham Bell what is arguably the most valuable patent ever: entitled improvements in telegraphy, in truth it secured for Bell the basic principles involved in a telephone.…
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The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History - Anthony M. Sammarco - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=1nR0CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT97&dq=heath+bar+Hershey&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwip8_CAlJHWAhWgF8AKHWbtALI4FBDoA
Discover the true story behind America’s first chocolate company, formed in pre-Revolutionary New England. In 1765, the story goes, Dr. James Baker of Dorchester, Massachusetts, stumbled upon a penniless Irish immigrant named John Hannon, who was crying…
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Being The Target Of Trump's Alt-Right Supporters | All In | MSNBC - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9OQVmJdtlI
Reporter Julia Ioffe recounts the experience of receiving anti-Semitic messages on Twitter, and later phone calls and death threats, after writing a magazine...
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Journey to the Copper Age - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ylW9yDBRB10
In this May 12, 2013 Sunday at the Met program, discover how the introduction of metal production over 6,000 years ago created a "metallurgy revolution" that...
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All the little things | Panti | TEDxDublin - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIhsv18lrqY
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Ireland's foremost "gender discombobulist", Panti, shares her exper...
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Farmer, Capt. Walter I. | Monuments Men Foundation
https://www.monumentsmenfoundation.org/intl/de/the-heroes/the-monuments-men/farmer-capt.-walter-i.
The Monuments Men helped to recover the priceless works of art stolen by the nazis. Learn more about their story.
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The Oregon Standoff: A Community Divided - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NeHPgF_9E0
Members of an anti-government militia have occupied the headquarters of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in a remote region of eastern Oregon for over a week...