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Term used to describe the African American military pilots who fought in WWII
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Iconic phrase from “The New Colossus,” an Emma Lazarus sonnet mounted inside the Statue of Liberty
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Term used to describe the ca. 20,000 Sudanese boys of Nuer or Dinka ethnicity who were displaced and/or orphaned by the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005)
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Obama subverts the memetic phrase “the South will rise again.” While this nominally refers to the Southern states reasserting political/economic dominance (or perhaps again attempting to secede), he conflates the South’s resurgence with coming to terms with its past history of slavery and white supremacy
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There are actually six flags on the Moon – one was planted during each successful Apollo mission
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Referring to one of the most iconic photos of WWII, taken during the Battle of Iwo Jima – which won photographer Joe Rosenthal the Pulitzer Prize for Photography and was the basis for the Marine Corps War Memorial monument at Arlington National Cemetery
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The location of the first American women’s rights convention, held in 1848
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A metonym encompassing both the cape itself and nearby Merritt Island, referring to the Air Force and NASA space facilities located thereon
Many (if not most) historic American space flights were launched from Cape Canaveral
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A town in North Carolina, where the Wright brothers famously made the first controlled powered airplane flights in 1903
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Lewis is the only surviving member of the civil rights “Big Six” leaders, having been chairman of the Student Nonviolent Leadership Committee. He was elected to the US House of Representatives from Georgia in 1987 and has been a congressman ever since, currently also Senior Chief Deputy Whip
Lewis and Hosea Williams led the first Selma-to-Montgomery March which culminated in “Bloody Sunday.”
