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DNA Code Cracked, Watson and Crick
James Watson & Francis Crick - It took an ex-physicist and a former ornithology student - along with some unwitting help from a competitor - to crack the secret of life.... |
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Psycho, Hitchcock
Psycho is probably the most "cinematic" and arguably the best of Alfred Hitchcock's American films. Even today, thirty-seven years after its initial release, the film is... |
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Guerrilla Warfare, Che Guevara
Che Guevara's amazing life story has lifted him to almost legendary status. The larger-than-life hero of the 1959 revolutionary victory that overturned the Cuban dictator... |
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UEFA, European Football Association
UEFA - the Union of European Football Associations - is the governing body of football on the continent of Europe. UEFA’s core mission is to promote, protect and develop... |
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Greensboro Sit Ins: National Civil Rights
On Feb. 1, 1960, the Greensboro Four, as they would later be called, felt isolated and alone as they sat at that whites-only lunch counter at the Woolworth Store on South... |
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Sixties Timeline
Lunch Counter Sit-Ins. Winter Olympics. Nixon and Kennedy Debates. Martin Luther King Jailed in Atlanta. USSR Puts First Man in Space. Bay of Pigs... |
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Timeline of the Hippy Movement
Here are some of the more important events of the 1960s-1970s. They include the antecedents and descendants of the hippy movement, the civil rights, anti-war, women's an... |
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WWF : World Wildlife Fund
WWF is a global organization acting locally through a network of family offices. All these offices do all they can to halt the accelerating destruction of our natural wor... |
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
AI's vision is of a world in which every pers... |
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Peter Jackson, Director
Born in New Zealand on Halloween in 1961, Jackson began at an early age making movies with his parents' Super 8 camera. At seventeen he left school, and failing to get a... |
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Barack Obama, 44th US President
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States and the first African American to hold the office. Obama was the junior United States Senat... |
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The Beatles
1961, February 9 - On this date the group makes their first lunchtime debut as The Beatles for a session at the Cavern. March 21 - The Beatles first night-time appearanc... |
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The World Factbook, CIA
The Factbook was created as an annual summary and update to the encyclopedic NIS studies. The first classified Factbook was published... |
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Campbell's Soup Cans, Warhol
Various people have taken credit for suggesting to Andy Warhol that he paint soup cans. The least believable is Ultra Violet's account. Ultra says that she... |
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Portait of Marilyn, Warhol
In the 1960’s Andy Warhol created several "mass-produced" images of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, and Jackie Onassis. "In August ’62 I started doing... |
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