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Old Ironsides, the Mona Lisa Stolen & Women Win the Vote | Aug 17–23
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From the Hudson River's first commercial steamboat to the secret pact that unleashed World War II, this week in history delivers ten world-changing moments across eight centuries. Old Ironsides earns her name, the Mona Lisa vanishes, Darwin goes public, and American women finally win the vote.
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On August seventeenth, eighteen oh seven, on the Hudson River in New York, Robert Fulton pointed his North River Steamboat north and let the engine do what sails and oars had always done before. The vessel departed New York City bound for Albany, churning upstream under its own mechanical power.
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