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Fact |
Category |
Date |
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271 |
Bruce Catton won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1954. |
History |
08/13/09 |
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272 |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1946. |
History |
08/13/09 |
|
273 |
Bernard DeVoto won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1948. |
History |
08/13/09 |
|
274 |
Esther Forbes won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1943. |
History |
08/13/09 |
|
275 |
Paul Horgan won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1955. |
History |
08/13/09 |
|
276 |
George F. Kennan won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1957. |
History |
08/13/09 |
|
277 |
Stephen Bonsal won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1945. |
History |
08/13/09 |
|
278 |
George Dangerfield won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1953. |
History |
08/13/09 |
|
279 |
Oliver W. Larkin won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1950. |
History |
08/13/09 |
|
280 |
James Phinney Baxter III won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1947. |
History |
08/13/09 |
|
281 |
Henry Ford improved the car but he did not invent it. Instead, he invented the assembly line. |
History > United States |
12/08/09 |
|
282 |
Marie Curie received two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. |
History |
07/12/10 |
|
283 |
Marie Curie discovered the elements polonium and radium. |
History |
09/17/10 |
|
284 |
While WWII was being fought around the world, Hitler captured many Jews and sent them to concentration camps that killed 6 million Jews. |
History > War |
11/28/10 |
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285 |
John Hanson was the first president of the United States. He served while the Articles of Confederation were in play. The first person to serve as president of the United States under the Constitution was George Washington. |
History > United States |
06/11/11 |
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