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Best March Madness Cinderella stories of all time

BangTheBook highlights some of the Cinderella basketball teams that have gone on unexpected runs, beat big schools during March Madness, and made history.

The tech you need to perfect your March brackets — and more

(BPT) - Are you geared up for the mayhem and excitement March basketball games bring? Whether you're planning to host epic watch parties at home, manage your office pool or passionately cheer on your …

Evolving intelligent life took billions of years − but it may not have been as unlikely as many scientists predicted

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Humans evolved late in Earth history. While this timing inspired the conclusion that humanlike life is a cosmic improbability, a new study pushes back.

Fighting school segregation didn’t take place just in the South
In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as Jim Crow’ as the one she had attended in the South.
A brief history of presidential inaugural speeches, from George Washington to today
Inaugural addresses that newly minted presidents have given over the past 250 years have aimed to do several key things, including unify the country and establish the speaker’s qualifications for the job.
When presidents would send handwritten lists of their nominees to the Senate, things were a lot different
The US now faces the likelihood of a bruising and raucous set of confirmation hearings − a clear break from the cooperative system the founders established.
Righting a wrong, name by name − the Irei monument honors Japanese Americans imprisoned by the US government during World War II
The US government locked up nearly 126,000 Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1945, but never kept comprehensive records of all the people subjected to this unjustified incarceration.