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The Battle of New Orleans, by E. Percy Moran, c. 1910. Andrew Jackson, War of 1812.

26 Decade-Defining Events in U.S. History

Town of Sisimiut located on the coast of the Davis Strait on Kangerluarsunnguaq Bay, Greenland

The Largest Islands in the World

United States Electoral College votes by state

How Many Electoral College Votes Does Each U.S. State Have?

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7 of History's Most Notorious Serial Killers

Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

World Data Locator Map: Australia

Is Australia an Island?

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

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Also Known As	prosencephalon

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olfactory bulb endbrain interbrain hypothalamus pineal gland thalamus cerebral hemisphere epithalamus archipallium metathalamus limbic system midbrain meninges cerebrum brainstem hindbrain neuroplasticity cross-modal plasticity neural oscillation