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The Gettysburg Address
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln was asked to provide "a few appropriate remarks" to dedicate the new Soldier's National Cemetery at the battlefield of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. His two-minute speech would come to be known as the Gettysburg Address, some of the most famous words spoken in American history.
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The final months of WWII from the vantage points of both the Japanese and the Americans.
