Eight Palestinian college students have written a manifesto that begins “Fuck Hamas… Fuck Israel.
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Lillian and Dorothy’s Debut
D.W. Griffith’s “An Unseen Enemy” (1912) was the Gish sisters’ first film.
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Contact Improv’s Oberlin College Roots
The first ever performed piece considered contact improvisation was danced by Oberlin College students in 1972.
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Middle School Talk
Last week’s episode of This American Life – Middle School is a must listen for anyone who survived junior high school.
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Corporal Yelizaveta Feodorovna Mironova
Red Corporal Yelizaveta Feodorovna Mironova, 255th Marine Brigade Black Sea Fleet of Novorossiysk, was a teenage sniper.
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Your School Library
Get smart – use your school library, duh!
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Freedom Riders’ Mugshots
The Freedom Riders were activists who made invaluable contributions to the progress of the civil rights movement in America by sitting illegally in segregated public transport.
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The First Russian Beauty Pageant
There were the Soviet Beauty Queens and then there were the Russian Beauty Queens.
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Nigerian Teen Girls Invent Pee Generator
14-year-olds Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola and Faleke Oluwatoyin, and Bello Eniola, 15, invented an incredible thing.
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Myra Gale Brown
Myra Gale and Jerry Lee Lewis, first cousins once removed, married when she was thirteen years old and he was twenty-two.