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Is it Presidents Day or Washington's Day? History of the Holiday

Officially called Washington’s Day, Presidents Day is observed every year in the United States on to celebrate the births of two of the country’s most historically influential presidents: George Washington and...

created by Tina Kells | 40 wks ago | updated 40 wks ago
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The ghost of Mexico City comes back to haunt Beijing

Stop me if you've heard this one before. An authoritarian one party state uses blunt military force to squash a popular uprising. Hundreds are killed or injured and the government fears that attempts to burnish its image abroad by holding the Olympic games will be tarnished...

created by Teacher Dude | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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40 Years After 1968: 'Where Has All the Rage Gone?'

As the U.S. death toll strikes its solemn bell of 4,000 soldiers killed in Iraq, with countless more Iraqis killed in the process, I have been asking myself this same question of late: where has all the rage...

created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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CHICAGO 10 - OFFICIAL TRAILER

Mixing animation with archival footage, CHICAGO 10 explores the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial of 8 activists set up as scapegoats by The Government of the 1968 Democratic Convention...