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    History! Sports in the early 1900?

    In the 1900's football was popular at only a few Ivy League colleges, and basketball had yet to catch on. The upper class preferred expensive, show time sports like tennis, golf, horse racing, sailing, and polo. Baseball, however, was already America's most talked about sport and was fast on...
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    Who has changed history, good or bad?

    Freud, the "father of psychoanalysis" Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press. His invention of the printing press 'made literacy and education possible for everyone because they could access writings that had once been too expensive or too rare for the common man or woman' Queen...
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    I need some Fun French History Facts...any ideas??

    --Lyon, France grew to become the second largest city in the Roman Empire [France was under Roman rule until the 5th century] --Normandy gained its name from Viking settlers and the Duke of Normandy took the throne of England in 1066. --France's National Anthem was the tune sung by the men of...
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    I need some Fun French History Facts...any ideas??

    --Lyon, France grew to become the second largest city in the Roman Empire [France was under Roman rule until the 5th century] --Normandy gained its name from Viking settlers and the Duke of Normandy took the throne of England in 1066. --France's National Anthem was the tune sung by the men of...
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