Final round of televised debates between JFK and Nixon

Thomas Edison unveils working light bulb

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  This lesson plan introduces students to Thomas Edison’s life and inventions. It asks students to compare and contrast life around 1900 with their own lives and helps students understand the connections between the technological advancements of the early twentieth century and contemporary society and culture.

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Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is published

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Samuel Coleridge born