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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created…

Added to The Gettysburg Address - Footnote Page

16 Sep 2009
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In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.”--Anne…

Added to Anne Frank - Footnote Page

01 Sep 2009
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"[We wish] that it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom and happiness."--George Washington on the signing of the Constitution

Added to The Ratification of the Constitution of... - Footnote Page

25 Aug 2009
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“It wasn’t only her voice that thrilled, with its amazing range and strength and awesome wails. To see her was to be sucked into a maelstrom of feeling that words can barely…

Added to Janis Joplin - Footnote Page

02 Jul 2009
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“[Janis Joplin] perfectly expressed the feelings and yearnings of the girls of the electric generation – to be all woman, yet equal with men; to be free, yet a slave to real…

Added to Janis Joplin - Footnote Page

02 Jul 2009
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Neil Armstrong's father

Added to Steven K Armstrong - Footnote Page

17 Jun 2009
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"I hate to bust the cap on a woman, especially when she was sitting down, however if it wouldn't have been her, it would have been us". FRANK A. HAMER (After slaying Bonnie in…

Added to Bonnie & Clyde - Footnote Page

01 May 2009
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Clyde Barrow's mother of the famous Bonnie and Clyde crime duo.

Added to Cumie Barrow - Footnote Page

28 Apr 2009
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"I think this would be a good time for a beer." - Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, upon the end of the Prohibition

Added to The Prohibition Era, 1919-1933 - Footnote Page

24 Mar 2009
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The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.…

Added to William Henry Seward - Footnote Page

03 Mar 2009
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. --Abraham Lincoln

Added to Abraham Lincoln - Footnote Page

27 Jan 2009
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Could you post the pictures? This is a great story page!

Added to C.C.Camp in Falls City, Oregon - Footnote Page

21 Jan 2009
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This is the famous writer and abolitiionist from the Civil War.

Added to Fredrick Douglass - Footnote Page

10 Jan 2009
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Hiram Revels was the first black to serve in the U.S. Senate from 1870-1871.

Added to Hiram Revels - Footnote Page

10 Jan 2009
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“Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists”--Franklin D. Roosevelt

Added to A History of American Immigration - Footnote Page

06 Jan 2009
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“I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense . . .”--Thomas Paine, "Common Sense"

Added to Thomas Paine - Footnote Page

05 Jan 2009
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“These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now,…

Added to Thomas Paine - Footnote Page

05 Jan 2009
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"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America." Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., 1/20/53

Added to Dwight D. Eisenhower - Footnote Page

12 Dec 2008
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“If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.”—Marilyn Monroe

Added to Marilyn Monroe - Footnote Page

12 Dec 2008
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“Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.” -Elvis in 1956, talking about…

Added to Elvis Presley - Footnote Page

11 Dec 2008

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