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Born into slavery in Maryland around 1820, Harriet Tubman escaped to become an ardent fighter for abolition and women's suffrage. She became known as "The Moses of Her People ...

TMZ has reported that Michael Jackson may appear on the MTV Video Music Awards in 2008 as a presenter with his sister, Janet. The VMAs are scheduled to air on ...

Female Victorian novelist George Eliot used a man's pseudonym to be sure that her writing was taken seriously by the public. Two of her most famous novels are Middlemarch ...

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist whose work advocates the process of natural selection as the engine of evolution.

Malawi is a landlocked nation in southeastern Africa which shares borders with three other African nations: Mozambique to the south, Tanzania to the north and Zambia to the west. Most ...

The USS Hartford is a U.S. Navy submarine. It is the second vessel with the same name. The submarine collided with the Navy's USS New Orleans on March ...

Fulton, KY is a small town of approximately 5,000 residents. It is the most populated city in Fulton County, the westernmost county in the state of Kentucky.

The University of Delaware is a four-year institution of higher education. The school's sports teams are part of the Colonial Athletic Association.