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Scott and Aaron look back on a busy week in U.S. history – from the Boston Tea Party to the Wright Brothers’ flight. And not only that: this week also brings us North Carolina’s 1776 Declaration of Rights, the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, and the invention of basketball in 1891.
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