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It was the year 1751 in England. Mr. Blandy slowly ate his food. He was not feeling well. His daughter Mary sat quietly with him. She was his only child. Mr. Blandy was an important lawyer and town of...

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For Luma Mefleh the Fugees were like a family. Luma grew up in Jordan, in the Middle East. She came to the United States for school. After she finished university, Luma did not know what she wanted. S...

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Shamsoun Dikori was born in the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan in the early 1980’s. He remembers his home as a beautiful place. It was filled with fruit trees and grass fields. As the oldest of six c...

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The year was seventeen seventy-five. Colonists in Massachusetts had fought battles with British troops in the towns of Lexington and Concord.War had not been declared.But citizen soldiers in each of t...

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Obesity means that someone weighs so much that their health is in danger. They are at risk from heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes. In Tonga, celebrations like the one with the cooked ...

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We look at the start of the American Revolution.The road to revolution in the late seventeen hundreds took several years.There were protests against the British policy of taxing the colonies without g...

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Huge amounts of gold.Enough gold to make a person extremely rich.Our story begins in an area called the Klondike in the Yukon Territory of western Canada.The discovery took place on a warm August dayi...

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Some people are walking in a beautiful stone building. Tall windows let the bright sunshine light up the rooms. A large number of paintings hang on the walls. All the pictures show the same thing - so...