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Amelia Earhart
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Amelia Earhart Earhart disappeared during her flight to Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean - July 2, 1937. There has been much speculation about her disappearance. A new movie starring Hilary Swank is being made based on her life. (2mi...n)
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November 8, 2011 at 11:41 PM
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Newsreel marking the end of the war in Europe as Germany succumbs to the allied invasion. (2min)
November 8, 2011 at 11:43 PM
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36 people - passengers, ship and ground crew - lost their lives. Survivors escaped by jumping from the falling aircraft.Both newsreel cameras and a radio reporter using new, state-of-the-art recording equipment were on the scene to chronicle the airs...hip's landing.The silent film footage, and radio report are combined bringing us one of the earliest recordings of an event of this kind. Today, cell phones with video cameras are common. If a disaster like this were to happen today, we'd likely have multiple recordings of it.But in 1937, it was an amazing coincidence to have both sound and film equipement on site to capture this historic event. (2min)
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November 8, 2011 at 11:37 PM
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Eisenhower's popularity during and after World War II make him a likely candidate for president. He was the last president to be born in the 1800s.President Eisenhower was successful during his two terms which included the beginning of the space prog...ram, dealing with the Cold War, instituting the interstate highway system and enlarging the Social Security program. (2min)
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November 8, 2011 at 11:49 PM
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William Howard Taft served only one term, succeeding Theodore Roosevelt. He was active in breaking up monopolies as well as increasing the governments ability to tax through the 16th Amendment.After his presidency, he went on to serve as Chief Justic...e of the Supreme Court until his death in 1930. (1min)
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November 8, 2011 at 11:32 PM
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President Roosevelt helped lead the U.S. out of the great depression and through most of World War II until his death in 1945, not long after his re-election to his 4th term.A distant cousing to President Theodore Roosevelt, he was an ambitious and s...uccessful politician. He was able to conceal the effects of polio and his inability to walk under his own power.(1min)
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November 8, 2011 at 11:39 PM
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President Woodrow Wilson served two terms. His first term concentrated on economic policy while his second term was engulfed with World War I.He is probably best known for helping created the League of Nations and being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.... (1min)
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November 8, 2011 at 11:33 PM
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It is not widely remembered today that there was an assasination attempt on the life of president Truman. President Truman was living at Blair House while the White House was undergoing reconstruction. Two Puerto Rican nationalists planned to rush th...e president. One of the would-be assasins along with one White House officer were killed in the exchange.This was one of 90 attempts on either a sitting president, president-elect or former presidents and vice presidents. (2min)
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November 8, 2011 at 11:48 PM
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The quiet, reserved president served as vice president, then president after the death of Harding. Coolidge restored confidence in the presidency after the scandals of his predecessors. (1min)
November 8, 2011 at 11:36 PM
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President Harding served only 2 years of his term until a heart attack cut his life and presidency short.In 1920 at the end of World War I, he and his republican running-mate Calvin Coolidge, won in a landslide victory.Harding signed the final peace ...treaties with Germany, Austria, and Hungary - officially ending World War I.Note: Presidential numbering is sometimes off because some count Grover Cleveland only once, although he was both the 22nd and 24th president. (2min)
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November 8, 2011 at 11:34 PM
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