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While the 58-foot-long bronze sculpture in Washington D.C. will now be the country's foremost World War I memorial, it is far ...

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Buddy Holly was born into a musical family in Texas on this day in history, Sept. 7, 1936, and went on to become a major star ...

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Discover the unexplored history of Nintendo with these highly anticipated new books from author Florent Gorge.

The National Library of Medicine offers a wide-ranging series of online lectures on the history of medicine as seen through the lens of the world’s largest biomedical library.

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