Mr. Fasano’s English Class

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The Eiffel Tower, completed on March 31, 1889, is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris. The tower has [...]

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On this day in 1981 John Hinkley, Jr. attempted to assassinate President Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.. Reagan and three others, including Press [...]

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Karen Ann Quinlan was born on this day in 1954. She was an important figure in the history of the right to die debate in the United States.
When she was 21, Quinlan fell unconscious after coming home from a party, and lapsed into a persistent vegetative state. After she was kept alive on a ventilator [...]

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It turns out that Thomas Edison was not the first person to record sound. In 1860, about twenty years before Edison’s phonograph, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville made a recording of the French folk song “Au Claire de la Lune.” The device he used to do this was known as a phonautograph, which utilized paper [...]

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Note: I’ve taken this information from a Wikipedia page about proper citation.
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“Plagiarism.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 22 July 2004, 10:55 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 10 Aug. 2004. <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plagiarism&oldid=5139350>.

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