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- My name is Liana Wexler. I’m 12 years old, and I am the founder of “Kids for Kerry”. “Kids for Kerry” is a grassroots...
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- On May 29, 1973, Thomas Bradley, a black man, was elected mayor of Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the third largest city...
- In October 1961 at Crowley Field in Cincinnati Ohio an old deaf gentleman named William E. Hoy stood up to throw the ...
- At the time, I would go out in the evening with my parents. But this time I had borrowed a bicycle from a friend of m...
- AAdrian’s “Amazing Race” started early when his parents realized that he, as a baby, couldn’t hear a thing, not even ...
- The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you ar...
- Jack used to curse(咒骂) the front yard as if it were a living thing. He was the man who lived with my grandmother fo...
- I was 15 when I walked into McCarley’s Bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at ___1___ on the shelves, the man behi...
- My father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. My first job was to drive the oxen th...
- We spent a day in the country, picking wild flowers. With the car full of flowers we were going home. On our way back...
- When Johnson called again, the manager received him very politely. “That is a most remarkable oil you brought us, Mr ...
- In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernadino, California. They careful...