  One
of Japan’s main goals during World War II was to remove
the United States as a Pacific power in order to gain
territory in east Asia and the southwest Pacific islands.
Japan hoped to defeat the US Pacific Fleet and use Midway as
a base to attack Pearl Harbor, securing dominance in the
region and then forcing a negotiated peace.
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American abolitionist who wrote about the corruption of
slavery, Stowe's book had such a strong effect on its
readers that it is considered by scholars to actually be one
of the causes of the Civil War. In fact, its impact led to
the oft-told apocryphal tale that when President Abraham
Lincoln met Stowe 10 years after the book became a classic,
the president greeted her by saying, ''So you're the little
woman who wrote the book that made this great war.''
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 You
see it all the time - people leaving coins on headstones,
graves, and tombs. People have been doing it for centuries,
and nobody really knows why. Some say it's to pay the
ferryman,
others to show respect. But what is the real reason? Why do
we leave coins on headstones? Leaving coins on a headstone
is a way to convey respect. It's a message to the deceased's
family that someone has visited the grave and the person who
left the coins will never forget the person.
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 ''The City of New Orleans'' was written
in 1970 by Steve Goodman while riding the train, and its
popularity may have helped save the railroads from extinction.
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