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What
Happened on March
16th?
1751
James Madison, 4th President of the United
States, was born.
1802 The United States
Military Academy was established at West
Point, New York.
1966 Astronauts Neil
Armstrong and David Scott successfully
docked their Gemini spacecraft with another
orbiting craft; it was the first such
successful maneuver in the U.S. space
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 Pope
Leo X Giovanni de Medici was
destined for the Church from a very early
age, and was made a Cardinal at the age
of 14. As Pope, he is best remembered for
instituting a number of practices that
led Martin Luther to criticize the
Church, which in turn led to the
Protestant Reformation. |
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 John
Jacob Astor started in the
fur business in 1784, and by 1800 had a
net worth of $250,000. In 1811 one of his
companies founded what is now Astoria,
Oregon, and by the early 1820's he had a
total monopoly on fur trade in the United
States. |
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 Spiro
Mounds is the only Native
American archaeological site in Oklahoma
that is open to the public. Occupied from
850 to 1450, the mound and city complex
was once the center of a vast trade
network that stretched from the Gulf of California to the
Gulf of Mexico and Virginia to the Great
Lakes. |
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 The Aryan
Brotherhood is a prison gang that originated
at San Quentin Penitentiary in California
in 1967. Its original purpose was to
provide protection for White prisoners
from Black and Hispanic gangs, and was
formed in response to a series of racial
incidents that had occurred at San
Quentin the previous year. |
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 The
Articles of Confederation
went into effect on March 1, 1781, and
remained in effect until ratification of
the U.S. Constitution. It created a loose
confederation of the states with most
power vested with the state governments. |
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 The University
of Texas is the largest institution in
the Texas university system, with
approximately 38,000 undergraduates and
13,000 postgraduates currently enrolled.
Its main campus is in Austin, and it
formally opened on September 15, 1883. |
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 (Harvey)
Phillip Spector began his
music career as part of a group known as
The Teddy Bears. He is best known,
however, for his "Wall of
Sound," wherein the instrumentals
were recorded first and then played back
while the vocal tracks were being laid. |
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 The
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
is located on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York
City, at 1071 Fifth Avenue. It houses a
comprehensive collection of European and
American conceptual and abstract art from
throughout the 20th century. |
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 Dennis
Lee Hopper had his first
success with Easy Rider in 1969,
but did not enjoy it again until Apocalypse
Now in 1979. Since then he has been
working steadily as an actor and
director, as well as a photographer and
painter. |
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 The Blue
Whale (Balaenoptera
musculus) is the largest animal to have
ever lived, dwarfing even the largest
dinosaurs. Adults average 80 to 105 feet
in length and weigh up to 200 tons. The
tongue is as heavy as an elephant, and
the heart the size of an automobile. |
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 Klinefelter
Syndrome describes a group of symptoms
found in some men with an extra X
chromosome. Every man who exhibits
symptoms of Klinefelter Syndrome has an
extra X chromosome, but not every male
who has the extra chromosome exhibits
symptoms. |
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 The
Saluki
is one of the oldest dog breeds known to
man, appearing in Egyptian tomb paintings
dating from 2100 BC. It probably
originated with the Bedouins, who used
the breed to hunt gazelle and other
animals. |
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 Ice
Cream is a
frozen concoction that, by law, contains
at least 10% milk fat and 20% milk solids
by volume. It is made by slowly mixing a
mixture of milk, sugar and flavorings
using a solution of briny ice water. |
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 Buffalo
Soldiers On June 28, 1866,
an Act of Congress authorized the
creation of six regiments of black
troops, two of cavalry and four of
infantry. The first two regiments were
subsequently organized on September 21,
1866, and these are the two regiments
that would become known to history as the
"Buffalo Soldiers." |
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 John
Philip Holland launched his
first successful submarine in 1881. The
company he founded ultimately became the
Electric Boat Company, which has
subsequently built the vast majority of
the U.S. Navy's submarines, as well as
submarines for many other nations. |
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