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Count like an Egyptian

by | Tuesday, August 30, 2016 |

Ancient Egyptians used symbols (or hieroglyphics) to represent numbers in the ones, tens, hundreds,...

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Five Little-Known Facts about the History of Flight

by | Monday, July 18, 2016 |

The history of flight is rich with experiments, trial and error, and new discoveries along the way...

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A quick guide to the deadly conflict between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr:

by | Wednesday, July 13, 2016 |

Are tickets to see the play Hamilton too hard to find this summer? Why weren’t Alexander Hamilton...

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Five things you didn’t know about George Washington

by | Thursday, June 30, 2016 |

We all know about the political accomplishments of the Founding Fathers of the United States, but...

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