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HISTORY Shorts: The Record-Setting Filibuster to Deny Civil Rights

Filibustering is a long and strange tradition, and its record-setting moment came to deny a large portion of Americans their constitutional rights.

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Aaron Leanhardt

The physicist-turned-coach helped design the "torpedo" bat, a potentially game-changing innovation in baseball.

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The Beatles

Casting has been announced for who will play The Fab Four in four upcoming biopics told from the perspective of each band member.

Carlo Acutis

Carlo Acutis

Set to be canonized on April 27, Acutis, who died at age 15, will be the first millennial Catholic saint.

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