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•  Rosa Parks

  Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement. " On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Her action was not the first of its kind: Irene Morgan, in 1946, and Sarah Louise Keys, in 1955, had won rulings before the U.S.

  

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•  History of Alabama

  Alabama became a state of the United States of America on December 14, 1819. After the Indian wars of the 1830s pushed Native Americans out of the state, white settlers arrived in large numbers. Wealthy planters created large cotton plantations based in the fertile central Black Belt, which depended on the labor of enslaved African Americans. Tens of thousands of slaves were transported to and sold in the state by slave traders who purchased them in the Upper South.

  

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•  Tuskegee Airmen

  The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of a group of African American pilots who fought in World War II as the 332nd Fighter Group of the US Army Air Corps. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces. During World War II, African Americans in many U.S. states were still subject to Jim Crow laws. The American military itself was racially segregated.

  

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•  Trail of Tears

  The Trail of Tears was the relocation and movement of Native Americans, including many members of the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, and Choctaw nations among others in the United States, from their homelands to Indian Territory in the Western United States. The phrase originated from a description of the removal of the Choctaw Nation in 1831.

  

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•  Decatur County, Alabama

  Decatur County, Alabama is a former county of the state of Alabama, United States. It was named is for Commodore Stephen Decatur of the United States Navy. Its county seat was Woodville.

  

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•  Bonnie Blue Flag

  The Bonnie Blue Flag, a single white star on a blue field, was the flag of the short-lived Republic of West Florida. It was created by Melissa Johnson, sister-in-law of Major Isaac Johnson, commander of the West Florida Dragoons. In September 1810, settlers in the Spanish territory of West Florida revolted against the Spanish government and proclaimed an independent republic. The Bonnie Blue Flag was raised at the Spanish fort in Baton Rouge on September 23, 1810.

  

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•  Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male

  

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•  West Florida

  West Florida was a region on the north shore of the Gulf of Mexico, which underwent several boundary and sovereignty changes during its history. Parts of the territory were held at various times by France, Spain, Britain, and the United States (as well as the short-lived "Republic of West Florida"). Eventually, the United States assumed control over the entire region, which now forms parts of the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.

  

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•  Yazoo lands

  The Yazoo lands were the sparsely-populated central and western areas of the U.S. state of Georgia, when its western border stretched back to the Mississippi River. It was named for the Yazoo tribe of Native Americans. Several other places and things were named Yazoo, either for or along with the lands. These lands later became the states of Alabama and Mississippi.

  

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•  16th Street Baptist Church bombing

  The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a racially motivated terrorist attack on September 15, 1963, by members of a Ku Klux Klan group in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. The bombing of the African-American church resulted in the deaths of four girls. Although city leaders had reached a settlement in May with demonstrators and started to integrate public places, not everyone agreed with ending segregation. Other acts of violence followed the settlement.

  

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•  Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands

  The Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) is the largest Dutch centre for study into energy. It is based in Petten and has about 700 employees (as of January 2008). The institute consists of 8 research areas: Policy studies Energy efficiency in industry Solar power Wind energy Renewable energy in the built environment (DEGO) Biomass Clean fossil fuels Fuel cell technology 300 employees work at the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group (NRG), a joint venture of ECN and KEMA.

  

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•  Steve Dawson

  Steven "Dobby" Dawson, is an English bass guitarist, founder of Saxon. It has been documented that Dawson was the inspiration for Harry Shearer's Spinal Tap character Derek Smalls.

  

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•  Barnet Museum

  Barnet Museum was opened in March 1938 to house the collection of the Barnet and District Local History Society. Its building is an early Georgian house in the heart of High Barnet. The Museum contains archives, objects, prints, photographs, paintings and maps reflecting the development of High Barnet and the surrounding area, as well as a collection of period costumes and accessories and domestic items.

  

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•  An Tánaiste

  

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•  Evgeniy Andreyev

  

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