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When Mark Twain was told in 1905 by the librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library that copies of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn had been removed from the shelves of the children's room, he replied, "I wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn for adults exclusively, and it always distresses me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be w..
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Counting both Northerners and Southerners, more American lives were lost in the Civil War than in any other conflict.
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not only did Horace Greeley, in less than a month's time, lose his wife, the election, his money, his mind, and his own life, but he also became the only presidential candidate of a major political party to receive no electoral votes.
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World War I ended at precisely eleven o'clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the year 1918.
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other people. At about seven minutes past
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Contrary to popular belief, Hollywood's good weather had little to do with its establishment as the movie capital of the United States. It was chosen not because of its warm climate but primarily because it lay within easy reach of the Mexican border.
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