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Elkader is a small town in Iowa with a population of around fifteen hundred.  And according to Frederique Boudouani, one of its residents, it’s the only U.S. city named after a Muslim revolutionary.

The prolific musician and composer Frederic Chopin was a giant of the Romantic Era, known for writing passionate pieces for the piano.

One of the more amazing stories of the day is the news that a Virginia historian has admitted he altered a presidential pardon written by President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1864, to make it appear as if Lincoln had signed the document a year later — on the day he was shot by John Wilkes Booth.Th

On this 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's "ask not" inaugural address — a speech that still inspires many Americans all these years later — thanks to C-SPAN's online library we can all watch and hear it again.There's a 38-minute video of the inauguration posted here.

It was cold in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 1961 -- a day that would change the lives of many young Americans.Bruce Birch woke to find the city at a near-standstill.

Before Reagan urged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," and even before Kennedy told Americans to ask "what you can do for your country," President Dwight D. Eisenhower coined his own phrase about "the military-industrial complex."