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TIL it was theorized through the 19th century that the Arctic Ocean got warmer as it got closer to the North Pole. The “Open Polar Sea” could provide trade routes through an equator-like temperate climate to Asia, Europe, and the Americas. It was disproven by dozens of failed expeditions.
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TIL about “Bonin English” — a dialect that is an English/Japanese fusion, spoken on the Ogasawara Islands. Previously uninhabited, the islands’ first modern inhabitants were anglophones in the 19th century. The islands went back and forth between the UK, US, and Japan. Today, they are part of Japan.
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Location, date, and time of speech that convinced MLK of the methods of nonviolence, revealed. The speech took place at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia on November 19th, 1950 at 3:45 pm. The Church’s application to place it on the National Historic Registry will be heard on June, 7th.
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