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-- card: 50946 from stack: in.0
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-- part contents for background part 14
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May 3
-- part contents for background part 13
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In 1654, a bricge in Rowley, Mass., was permitted to charge a toll for animals, while people crossed for free.
In 1765, the first U.S. medical school was proposed at the College of Philadelphia, now the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1802, Washington, D.C., was incorpoarated as a city, with the mayor to be appointed by the president, and the council elected by property owners.
In 1916, Irish nationalist Patrick Pearse and two others were executed by the British for their roles in the Easter Rising.
-- part contents for background part 17
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"No woman in my time will be Prime Minister ... Anyway, I wouldn't want to be PM; you have to give yourself to it 100 percent."
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Margaret Thatcher, in an October 1969 interview with the
"Sunday Telegraph" of London.