The football huddle came about during the 1890s. This was about 25 years after intercollegiate football began being played in the United States. From the beginning, the game was popular […]
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Pancho Barnes (1901-1975) was a fearless pilot and aviation pioneer, flying at a time when flight was in its infancy. She went on to work as a Hollywood stunt pilot,
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Septima Clark (1898-1987) was an educator and civil rights activist. She established Citizenship Schools that transformed the South by increasing the number of African Americans who could vote. Her acclaim
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. left us with many inspirational thoughts, so it is never easy to pick just one. However, recently, I came upon part of a sermon he
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The Fourth of July is a reminder of the birth of our country as well as its expansion across the continent and beyond. Today we know that much of the
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Robert Ripley (1890-1949) achieved worldwide fame through his “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” column, a wildly popular newspaper panel series and radio program during the 1930s and ’40s. The phrase,
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