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Exploring Gettysburg Through the Eyes of its Black Citizens

In Gettysburg, black citizens found fragile freedom.

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Weaponry: The Rifle-Musket and the Minié Ball

The Civil War's deadliest weapons were not rapid-fire guns or giant cannon, but the simple rifle-musket and the humble minié ball.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian musical genius and composer whose works included The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute.

1850

Samuel Gompers, first President of American Federation of Labor.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II, emperor who ruled Germany during World War I but was forced to abdicate in 1918.

1900

Hyman Rickover, American admiral who is considered the "Father of the Atomic Submarine."

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