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Jan 27

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day as well as the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

Millions of innocent lives were taken - but their stories must never be lost.

We remember, so history is never repeated - some of these images are difficult to view, but it is necessary that they are seen

1. Survivors of the Dachau concentration camp demonstrate the operation of the crematorium by dragging a corpse towards one of the ovens in a crematorium, 1945.

2. The bodies of former prisoners stacked outside the crematorium in the newly-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, April 23, 1945.

3. The charred corpse of a prisoner killed by the SS in a barn just outside of Galdelegen, Germany, 1945.

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Jan 26

Do you remember high school history or did you sleep during class?

Here are ten questions from a 10th-grade level U.S. history quiz to test your knowledge!

7/10 correct to pass

Key at the end

1. Which English colony was the first permanent settlement in North America?

2. What was the significance of the Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison (1803)?

3. Which event marked the end of Reconstruction in 1877?

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Jan 25

Thread of what popular websites used to look like when the Internet was still young

Which of these do you remember?

1. Twitter's landing page when the site was launched in 2006

2. The Facebook's profile page layout in 2005

3. Amazon's homepage in 1995 when it was just an online Bookstore. It would expand to selling computer games & music in 1998.

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Jan 25

Today, college dorms have laptops, LED lights, & mini-fridges - but what did they look like long ago?

Dorm life used to be a different world

Here’s a look inside college dorms from 100+ years ago

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1. College dorm room in 1910 at the University of Illinois

2. Group of female students enjoying what is often thought of as a modern pastime, a sleep over, at Peace College, Raleigh, NC in the 1910s.

3. Two students study in their well decorated dorm room, ca. 1890s.

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Jan 22

Can you pass the test taken to become a U.S. citizen?

Here are 10 questions from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Naturalization Test

6/10 to pass

Answer key is at the end

1. The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the U.S. Constitution. Name one of the writers.

2. When is the last day you can send in federal income tax forms?

3. Which territory did the U.S. buy from France in 1803?

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Jan 22

The Panama Canal is one of history’s greatest feats of engineering

It revolutionized global trade

But it almost never happened...

Disease, failure, & political battles nearly doomed it.

Here’s the story of how the U.S. built the canal that changed the world

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1. Before the canal, ships had to sail 8,000 miles around South America to travel between the Atlantic & Pacific.

A shortcut through Panama had been dreamed of for centuries.

The Spanish explored it in the 1500s & France tried to build it in the 1880s.

2. The French attempt, led by Ferdinand de Lesseps (who built the Suez Canal), began in 1881.

They planned a sea-level canal - no locks, just digging straight through the jungle.

Disease, mudslides, and poor planning destroyed the project.

Over 22,000 workers died. The French ran out of money and gave up.

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