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  2. Cass Technical High School - Wikipedia

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    [6] [8] [9] By 1942 the school had more than 4,500 students and was the largest in Michigan. [6] In 1985, an addition on the south side was opened, designed by Albert Kahn & Associates, which included performing arts facilities, a new pool, and a student cafeteria, and a wing of the building was remodeled for computer and business classes.

  3. 2011 Michigan Wolverines football team - Wikipedia

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    Michigan extended its lead to 16–7 when Junior Hemingway caught a 26-yard pass for a touchdown. In the second quarter, Ohio State's Drew Basil completed a 45-yard field goal, and the Buckeyes took a 17–16 lead when Braxton Miller ran 19 yards for a touchdown. Michigan regained the lead on a six-yard touchdown run by Denard Robinson.

  4. Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

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    Chart of public symbols of the Confederacy and its leaders as surveyed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, by year of establishment [note 1]. Most of the Confederate monuments on public land were built in periods of racial conflict, such as when Jim Crow laws were being introduced in the late 19th century and at the start of the 20th century or during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ...

  5. Project Mercury - Wikipedia

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    It was further stipulated that candidates should be between 25 and 40 years old, no taller than 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), and hold a college degree in a STEM subject. [7] The college degree requirement excluded the USAF's X-1 pilot, then-Lt Col (later Brig Gen) Chuck Yeager , the first person to exceed the speed of sound . [ 161 ]

  6. Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The district, with an enrollment exceeding 400,545 students (2013–2014 20th Day Enrollment), is the third-largest in the U.S. [312] On September 10, 2012, teachers for the Chicago Teachers Union went on strike for the first time since 1987 over pay, resources, and other issues. [313]

  7. John C. Frémont - Wikipedia

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    Fremont and his men eventually made their way to camp at Klamath Lake, [39] [40] [23] killing Native Americans on sight as they went. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] On May 8, Frémont was overtaken by Lieutenant Archibald Gillespie from Washington, who gave him copies of dispatches he had previously given to Larkin. [ 23 ]

  8. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

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    American forces censored such images in Japan until 1952. [216] [217] Unlike Hiroshima's military death toll, only 150 Japanese soldiers were killed instantly, including 36 from the 134th AAA Regiment of the 4th AAA Division. [115] At least eight Allied prisoners of war (POWs) died from the bombing, and as many as thirteen may have died.

  9. Helios - Wikipedia

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    The Fall of Icarus, ancient fresco from Pompeii, ca 40-79 AD. In another tale, the Athenian inventor Daedalus and his young son Icarus fashioned themselves wings made of birds' feathers glued together with wax and flew away. [153] According to scholia on Euripides, Icarus, being young and rashful, thought himself greater than Helios.