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no longer last in national public education ranking. education week's latest quality counts report card ranks the silver state 50th among the 50 states and the district of columbia. new mexico dropped to 51st.

bella and gigi hadid's great-great-grandfather ruled parts of palestine in the 18th century.
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the boston marathon takes place on patriot's day each year, with more than 30,000 competitors and thousands of spectators lining the streets. it shocked the world when this peaceful race ended in tragedy on april 15, 2013. two chechen brothers, dzhokhar and tamerlan tsarnaev, aged 19 and 26, exploded two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line, killing three people and injuring 264. tamerlan was killed evading arrest. when dzhokhar was caught, he claimed the attack was motivated by islamic beliefs and revenge on the u.s. for the afghanistan and iraq wars.

late in 1969, americans learned that, a year earlier, an american lieutenant and his unit had opened fire on a vietnamese village they thought was held by communists. they killed an estimated 400 innocent villagers, mostly women and children. descriptions of the my lai massacre were so shocking that in a poll taken in one u.s. city, only 12 percent of the people believed it was true.

the heavyweight boxing champion. he was jailed for refusing to serve in the u.s. army and became a hero of the antiwar movement.

mahatma gandhi's nonviolent protest tactics helped win india's independence from great britain in 1947. in a montgomery, alabama, church in 1955, a 26-year-old minister named dr. martin luther king, jr. electrified an audience of blacks who were trying to organize a boycott of the city's buses. people were impressed by the power of his spoken words and by his emphasis on nonviolent protest and passive resistance, concepts king had learned from studying the life of mahatma gandhi, the leader of india's independence movement.

the policy of separating people by race in schools, housing, industry, and public facilities.

in the fall of 1959, khrushchev accepted an invitation to visit the united states. the visit, and his meetings with president eisenhower, created hope for a permanent "thaw" in the cold war. to reduce tensions further, the two leaders planned a conference with great britain and france in may 1960, to discuss the divided nation of germany. but, on may 1, 1960, the russians shot down a high-altitude american spy plane called a u-2, which was flying over soviet territory. at first, the u.s. government said it was only a weather plane, but soviet leader khrushchev revealed that the pilot of the plane was alive and had confessed. the meeting that had been planned quickly collapsed, and the cold war continued.

the world's first earth-orbiting, man-made satellite.

i am giving you free will but you cannot use it.

at the end of the spanish-american war, the united states had acquired the philippines and hawaii. this made the nation a major power in the pacific. the navy now needed to find a way to move ships from the west coast to the east coast that was more efficient than going around the tip of south america. the solution was to build a canal — a waterway connecting two bodies of water - across central america to join the atlantic ocean and the pacific ocean.

in 1903, a revolution in panama gave the country its independence from colombia. president roosevelt now had the opportunity he needed to acquire a route for the canal, since the isthmus of panama is the narrowest piece of land in the americas. the u.s. government instantly recognized the new government of panama and signed a treaty that gave the united states a ten-mile-wide "canal zone" in exchange for a fee of $10 million and an annual payment of $250,000.

red planet. its first 4k video was released couple of days ago on youtube.