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 Captain John Smith is saved by Pocahontas, 1608
". . .then as many as could laid hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs to beat out his brains." A young Indian girl saves an English adventurer from execution.
 Escape from Slavery, 1838
"In my clothes I was rigged out in sailor style...and could talk sailor like an 'old salt.'" Frederick Douglass describes his dash to freedom.
Lee's Retreat from Gettysburg, 1863
"...it has been
a sad, sad day to us." The agonizing
retreat of the Confederate Army after the
Battle of Gettysburg.
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In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945 a single plane 
carrying a single bomb appeared in the clear blue skies over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and introduced the world to the Atomic Age.
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