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This week: a famous pedestrian walks 1000 miles in 1000 hours (it’s harder than you think), and a man named Walker invents the friction match. Also: a vivid dream inspires the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and Harriet Tubman rescues hundreds of enslaved people in a daring South Carolina raid.

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