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Hernán Cortés's full name was Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano.

Amelia Earhart lived during a time when women had only recently gained the right to vote.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail” on newspaper margins and scraps of paper because that’s all he had in jail.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. His birth name wasn’t Martin – it was Michael! His father changed both their names to Martin Luther when he was 5 years old.

Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863, on his family’s farm in Springwells Township, Michigan, which is now part of Dearborn.

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