Carter G. Woodson, born in 1875 in New Canton, Virginia, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH).

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 the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH).

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Pete Hegseth, now the US Secretary of Defense, speaks at a summit in Nashville, Tennessee in May 2023. (

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Isla Talchichilte in the Gulf of California on a satellite image taken in February 22, 2023. 

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An vendor sells vegetables at a roadside stall in Sabji Mandi Bazar in Delhi, receiving payment on UPI Unified Payments Interface Phonepe. 

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Saline, Michigan, December 1, 2025. Rural Michigan residents rally against the $7 billion Stargate data center planned on southeast Michigan farm land. Protesters say the data center is being fast tracked by DTE Energy, the large electric utility, and that it could raise residential electricity rates and endanger the water supply. (Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Print of Hobbes’ Leviathan from a vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque, 1852. 

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