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This week marks two significant anniversaries: the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. (Eleanor Roosevelt was a key figure in the drafting of that declaration – influenced not only by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, but also by the “Four Freedoms” idea championed by Franklin Roosevelt during his presidency.) Also this week: Topeka, Kansas is founded in 1854 by antislavery advocates, and a pioneering computer scientist is born.

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