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The population of the thirteen colonies increased from about 500,000 in 1700 to nearly 3 million in 1775.
Kevin Phillips, 1775: A Good Year for Revolution (New York: Viking, 2012), 134.
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In 1967, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare released a report that revealed that all major U.S. cities had hazardous sulfur dioxide levels.
G. Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot, The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s (New York: The Penguin Press, 2008), 214. During the Cold War a 120,000 square foot bunker was built into a West Virginia mountain that had chambers for the House of Representatives and Senate, living accommodations for members of Congress and their staffs, a hospital, and a crematorium.
Evan Thomas, Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2012), 268-69. President Theodore Roosevelt created five national parks and 51 wildlife refuges.
Aida D. Donald, Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt (New York: Basic Books, 2007), 193. The armistice signed on July 27, 1953 that effectively ended the Korean War was withdrawn by North Korea on March 27, 2009.
Patrick K. O’Donnell, Give Me Tomorrow: The Korean War’s Greatest Untold Story – The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010), 199-200. |
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