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What was so valuable 1000 years ago that led cacao traders from Central America to trade with Native Americans  in the Four Corners Region (AZ, UT, CO, NM).   

            

He painted the Masters in the Louvre, but failed to sell his painting in America, thus having to turn to Plan B; his invention changed communication. 

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 His picture hangs in the office of many U.S. Supreme Court justices for being vindicated many years later.   

      

The surprising connection between a U.S. President, his son, and a Railroad Baron.  

     

This new railroad would put its future on the line when it accepted a dare to race a horse.  

       

No one realized or predicted that this new invention could some day shrink the nation.   

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A Frenchmen and an Englishmen fight over a women ended up changing the town’s name.   

        

Louise's father told George, an immigrant, he wasn't good enough for his daughter. George set out to prove him wrong.  Along the way, Louise created inspired a famous salad dressing.   

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Knowing there was no agency to deal this little girls plight; she contacted the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for help.

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Beautiful, sophisticated women were the leading cause of stress, along with other conditions, that led to an uniquely American disease called 'Americanitis'. story 6c

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Who ever heard of a professor buying a drink was pretty much the attitude toward 

education in frontier Arizona.

                

Who knew a 19 year old mistress of  a 48 year old railroad baron would eventually 

marry him and then after his death she would marry his nephew and create world 

renowned museum.

               

The question of the day regarding horses led to an invention we have today.

                

After flunking the college entrance exam, his decision to not to return to Midwest home,  changed the course of U.S. history.   

               

Hired by the Company to be waitresses in diners that served passengers on a railroad building West, these women would be credited for ‘civilizing America’s Frontier’. 

                  

This son of an U.S. president undoubtedly holds the record for most miles traveled on a railroad.                

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He pleaded with her to marry him promising “Together we can do great things.”  She did and they did great things together.

              

​This famous architect plans for an entertainment center in Baghdad Iraq ended up

being built in Tempe, Arizona.  

             

Her grandfather was fired for conspiring with the embezzler.   She set out to prove her grandfather’s innocence.      

          

This football game was billed as the Sons of the Generals vs the sons of the Indians Chiefs.