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“Resolved, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.” These words were penned by Richard Henry Lee [...]

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Groundhog Day is a holiday celebrated in Canada and the United States on February 2 of each year. It is thought to have its roots in early European tradition which sought to determine whether winter would be prolonged based on the emergence of a bear or badger out of hibernation. In the United States, the [...]

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On March 18, 1837 in Caldwell, New Jersey, Grover Cleveland was born. He was the fifth of nine children raised in upper state New York by his Yale-educated father Richard Falley Cleveland who was a Presbyterian minister and has mother Ann Neal. When Grover was 16, his father died and college was no longer an [...]

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