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Top 10 Jobs in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri is recommended as the best city in America for workers at the midway point in their career or midway up the career ladder. The Greater Kansas City Area offers ample job and career openings with advancement potential, affordable housing, arts and culture, music, nightlife, shopping, and family attractions. Several universities are located in this historic area at the beginning for the Santa Fe Trail.

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The Most Famous Shipwrecks in American History

While the United States remains a relatively young country compared to many others in the world, we have our fair share of history. One of the more interesting aspects of history is mysteries and solving...

3 comments    america gold new york
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Why Do We Study History

When am I ever going to use this? Why do we need to know this stuff? The questions every teacher loves to hear. The answer is actually pretty simple, "To know yourself". What is important about history? ...

27 comments    education history philosophy
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A Guide to the Banana

We might see 3-4 types of bananas in the local grocery, but there are 100s of different varieties. Several are delicious raw, come cooked, and many of them are good for medicine as well. Different threads of history may prove that the originals came from India or even Australia...

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US History: 1851 - 1900

Several additional territories became states, USA acquired additional territories, set a Canadian Border and experienced their own American Civil War. The Gold Rush and the Railroads also created a flurry of activity, while Native Americans were driven West.

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US History: President Dwight D. Eisenhower, WWII General

The Presidency of our 34th President of the United States comprised 8 years of turmoil immediately after WWII. The WWII ally Russia became a Cold War enemy in the race for Communist control of the world and...

9 comments    american history us history
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Is America the Greatest Country in the World?

JOIN THE DEBATE HERE -- let's get this lively thread hoppin' -- is America the Greatest Country in the World or Not...???

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Dinner by Sunset -- Tex-Mex Turns, Twists, and Twirls

Here are a few recipes that come from the South Texas border area, with some individual changes made along the route through the years...

16 comments    american history guacamole
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US History - The 13 Colonies

Everyone living in America is an immigrant or the descendant of one, really. Even Native Americans likely migrated in from nothern Asia. However, after 1400 AD, Europeans arrved in America, claiming the land...

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US History: John F. Kennedy and the Marilyn Monroe Murder

Cape Canaveral is in decay. 1960 - 1963 presents some of the most turbulent years in the world. Certain government sources stated that they would not release the true and complete details of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's demise to the general public until all alive that day were dead. Then Marilyn Monroe was murdered, according to the evidence. Later followed by deaths of RFK and Martin Luther King. Jr. and the disppearance of Jimmy Hoffa.

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