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Luis was born in Lima, Peru. He lived there with his parents. But one day his life changed completely. His parents got divorced. And his mother moved to the United States. So Luis went with her. Th...

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The native peoples of North and South America came from Siberia thousands of years ago.There was a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska before the end of the last ice age.As the groups settled diffe...

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The summer of nineteen sixty-nine was a special time in history.That was when men from Earth -- American astronauts -- flew their Apollo Eleven spacecraft to the moon,landed and returned home safely.T...

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In 1942, during World War II, a young Jewish girl went into hiding with her family. They hid in a secret room built especially for them. It was above a Dutch business in the city of Amsterdam. For two...

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The people of Washington DC won a long fought battle earlier this month.No, not statehood or a vote in the United States Congress.But, a little more representation than before.Lawmakers approved a mea...

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England was the first country to compete with Spain for claims in the New World.Queen Elizabeth the First supported explorations as early as the fifteen seventies.Sir Humphrey Gilbert led the first En...

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Crowds of people gather. Some of them are rich and famous. Others hope that they will be rich and famous one day. They all have one thing in common - the film industry. Here in France, it is the Canne...

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“I was going across the street. I thought I could beat the car. But I was wrong.” Ricky Barker was thirteen years old. He was riding home on his two-wheel bicycle. He saw a car coming. He believed ...