IN FIFTH PERIOD,
You are going to post a blog about anything you research from this list, or that you come up with. Two paragraphs, 1 picture and a SOURCE ( a website URL so I can check that you didn't plagiarize)
If you finish early, you can play cool-math or slither.io
8th Grade
Research Topics
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Abolitionists
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Addiction (causes, treatments)
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African masks
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African music’s influence on
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Air travel (History)
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Alternative Energy Sources
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Alzheimer’s disease
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Amish life
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Amistad Rebellion
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Ancient musical instruments
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Animal camouflage
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Animation (by hand or by computer)
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Anime
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Antibiotics
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Architecture of ancient cultures
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Art of a specific country or continent (i.e
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Artistic movements (i.e. abstract art, cubism,
impressionism; modern art, Renaissance art, surrealism)
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Artificial organs
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Attention deficit disorders
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Autism and/or Asperger’s
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Bill of Rights
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Bio-fuels
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Black cowboys
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Blue jeans (from work clothes to fashion)
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Bollywood
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Brain research
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Brown vs. the
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Bulimia
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Cancer treatments
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Cathedrals around the world
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Censorship (Advanced English only)
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Challenger explosion
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Childhood obesity
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Chinese opera
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Chinese porcelain
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Church bombings, 1950s & 1960s,
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Cinco de Mayo
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Civil Rights sit-ins at lunch counters
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Commerce/trade in Colonial U.S.
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Copyright law & the Internet
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Coral reefs
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Day of the Dead (
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D-Day (World War II)
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Death & burial rites
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Deep sea exploration
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Diamonds
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Diseases
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Druids
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Dust storms
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Dyslexia
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Early radio broadcasting (1920s, etc.)
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Educational systems around the world
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Electoral college
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Electric cars
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Fashions of a specific decade (Choose one.)
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Feng Shui
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Flappers
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Foods of a specific culture
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Former
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Forts of
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Gallipoli
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Global positioning systems (GPS)
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Global warming
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Gold rush in
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Gold Rush in
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Government, forms of (i.e. democracy, communism, etc.)
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Graphic art
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Great
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Green Berets
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Halloween (History)
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Hieroglyphics
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History of cosmetics
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History of the Broadway musical
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Holography/holograms
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Hope Diamond
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Hurricane Katrina
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Hurricanes
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Hyatt Regency Hotel collapse (
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Indian reservations
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Integration of Baseball
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Interior design
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International adoptions
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Internet influence on the world
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Internet safety
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Invention of artificial heart
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Invention of atomic bomb
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Invention of Barbie doll
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Invention of Braille
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Invention of cotton gin
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Invention of Kevlar
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Invention of laser
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Invention of lie detector
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Invention of Morse Code
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Invention of MRI (magnetic
resonance imaging)
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Invention of parachutes
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Invention of Pasteurization
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Invention of Penicillin
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Invention of polio vaccine
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Invention of sign language
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Invention of smallpox vaccine
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Invention of telephone
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Invention of the assembly line
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Invention of traffic signal
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Invention of X-rays
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Inventions and art of Leonardo Da Vinci
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Japanese gardens
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Japanese internment camps
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Juvenile justice system in the
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Kamikaze pilots
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Kennedy-Nixon debates
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Knights of the Middle Ages
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Land mine removal
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Land Rush in
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Liberation of concentration camps
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Liberation of
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Life in Shakespearean Times
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Little Big Horn
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Little Rock Nine (integration of schools, 1957)
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Magna Carta
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Major rivers of the world
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Manners/customs around the world
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March on
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Mardi Gras
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Mayan Empire
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Medieval castles
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Medieval culture
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Medieval towns
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Medieval weaponry
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Military uniforms throughout history
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Modern farming & agriculture
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Mount St. Helen’s eruption
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Mudslides
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Multiple personality disorder
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Mummies in
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Musical forms (i.e. jazz, rap, etc.)
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Native American traditions
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Negro Leagues Baseball
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New Deal (
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New
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Newsreels during World War II
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Occupations (Select one)
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Pantheon
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Parthenon
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Peace Corps
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Photography
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Planets (choose one)
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Plate tectonics
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Pod-casting
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Political cartoons
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Protest songs of the 1960s
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Public transportation
systems around the world
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Pyramids
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Rain forest
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Renaissance fashion
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Renewable energy sources
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Roman Dress
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Roman Games, Gladiators
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Rosetta Stone
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Route 66
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Safety features of modern automobiles
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Samurai warriors
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Satellite Radio (XM, Sirius)
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Satellites
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School security
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Seven Natural Wonders of the World: (Select
one.)
Northern Lights,
The Harbor at
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Seven New Wonders of the World: (Select one.)
Statue of Christ Redeemer,
Chichen
Taj
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Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: (Select one.)
Great Pyramid of
Lighthouse of
Statue of Zeus at
Mausoleum of
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Shakespeare’s Globe Theater
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Shakespeare’s plays
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Sibling birth order
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Silent films
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Sistine Chapel
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Slave trade in the
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Space flight
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Special effects in film
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Sputnick & the space race
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Staph infections (drug resistant)
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Statue of
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Stock Market Crash, 1929
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Student rights
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Summer Olympics
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Surgical techniques
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Tae Kwan Do
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Television in the 1960s
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Titanic sinking
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Tornadoes
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Tourette’s syndrome
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Trail of Tears
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Trojan Horse
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Tsunami in
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Tsunamis
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Twins
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U.S.S. Nautilus
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Union Station Massacre
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Vegans
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Vietnam P.O.W. camps
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Wagon trains
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Water resources
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Westward expansion in the
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White Sox Baseball Scandal, 1919
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Winter Olympics
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Women at war
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Women on the Homefront during WWII
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Women’s baseball during World War II
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Women’s Suffrage Movement
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WPA (Works Progress Administration)
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Yoga
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You-Tube’s influence on polities
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