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The Cuyahoga River fires:

http://www.oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/pollution/media/supp_pol02d.html

During the 1930's, 9 black boys, ages 12 - 19, were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train and repeatedly found guilty and sentenced to death. Eventually they were found to be innocent and released,  years later. They were called the Scottsboro Boys.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

Beaver Cove, Maine, webcam:

http://www.beavercovecamps.com/weather/

Tarzan of the Apes

Edgar Rice Burroughs:

http://www.tarzan.org/official_biography_part1.html

Discovered penicillin

Alexander Fleming:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1945/fleming-bio.html

Sound Bite:

For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield)

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Murder on the Orient Express

Death on the Nile

Agatha Christie:

http://www.essortment.com/all/agathachristie_rlxk.htm

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand:

http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_ayn_rand_aynrand_biography

The largest land deal in history, the Louisiana Purchase:

http://www.louisiana-purchase.org/

The first World's Fair:

http://www.victorianstation.com/palace.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-0YBr-6IxE

Father of American Anthropology

Franz Boas:

http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/franz_boas.html

Pioneer in polio treatment & rehabilitation

Elizabeth Kenny:

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090570b.htm

Music Video:

Time of the Season (Zombies)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Rqk2rG9s4&feature=related

World's first research university

University of Berlin:

http://www.hu-berlin.de/ueberblick-en/history/index_html?set_language=en&cl=en

Father of photojournalism

Mathew Brady:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwbrady.html

Sound Bite:

Won't Get Fooled Again (The Who)

LISTENWon't Get Fooled Again

Founder of epidemiology

John Snow:

http://www.winwaed.com/sci/cholera/john_snow.shtml