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By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.
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YouGov's latest research shows that 41% of Americans say that the First Amendment, summarized as the Amendment which guarantees 'religious freedom and the right to free speech, assembly' is the most important Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
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During the Holocaust, millions of Jews were put in concentration camps. This resulted in millions of deaths. After Nazi Germany was defeated by the Allied forces in 1945, the Jews who lived through the atrocities wanted a safe place to live. The British Mandate of Palestine was a strip of land in the middle east that Jewish people considered their "homeland." The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine declared that the British Mandate of Palestine would would be split into two new countries: Israel and Palestine. The Partition Plan passed through the United Nations. Israel declared independence soon after.
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In the Cause of Humanity: Abolition of sati and infanticide. Destruction of Gangs, Thugs, and other such pests of Indian society. Allowing remarriage of Hindu widows. In the Cause of Civilization: Education, both male and female, though yet only partial.
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The years are numbered according to the year in which Christ was believed to have been born. The period before that is known as B.C. (short for Before Christ) and the years after are known as A.D (short Anno Domini, and meaning the Year of our Lord).
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