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STL History Minute | Sumner High School
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STL History Minute | Frozen Mississippi
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STL History Minute | Lucy Delaney
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STL History Minute | Union Station
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STL History Minute | Mound City
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STL History Minute | The Wainwright Building
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STL History Minute | Eads Bridge
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STL History Minute | Gaslight Square
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The Story Behind the Eads Bridge
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STL History Minute | Joseph Pulitzer
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STL History Minute | 1904 Olympics
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STL History Minute | Virginia Minor
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STL History Minute | The Great St. Louis Fire
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1904 World's Fair Food and Restaurants
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STL History Minute | Exodusters
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STL History Minute | Shelley vs. Kraemer
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STL History Minute | Hop Alley: St. Louis's Chinatown
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STL History Minute | Logan Uriah Reavis
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STL History Minute | Joy of Cooking
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STL History Minute | Frankie and Johnny
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Susan Blow
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STL History Minute | Tina Turner
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STL History Minute | W.C. Handy's St. Louis Blues
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STL History Minute | Incubators at the 1904 World's Fair
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STL History Minute | 1944 World Series
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STL History Minute | Compton and Dry Map of St. Louis
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STL History Minute | Stained Glass in St. Louis Homes
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1911 Cardinal Baseball Players Heroes On and Off the Field
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STL History Minute | Josephine Baker
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STL History Minute | Missouri Leviathan
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STL History Minute | Great St. Louis Bank Robbery
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STL History Minute | Ragtime Capital
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STL History Minute | Fairgrounds Exposition
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STL History Minute | St. Louis Flag
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STL History Minute | Homer G. Phillips Hospital
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STL History Minute | St. Louis Stars Baseball Team
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African American Newspapers
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STL History Minute | Garment District
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STL History Minute | Golden Lane Parade
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STL History Minute | St. Louis Tinfoil
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St. Louis Blues
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STL Shoes
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STL History Minute | Downtown Sit-Ins
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STL History Minute | Dick Gregory in St. Louis
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STL History Minute | St. Louis Civil Courts Building
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STL History Minute | Pageant and Masque
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Martin Luther King Jr., In St. Louis
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STL Bricks
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STL History Minute | Flounder Houses
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STL History Minute | Capturing the City
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All STL World Series
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STL History Minute | Pearl Curran
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STL History Minute | Black Tuesday
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The Gateway Arch
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Christmas at Stix, Baer & Fuller
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STL History Minute | Katherine Dunham
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STL History Minute | Zebulon Pike
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STL History Minute | Annie Malone
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Remembering Two St. Louis Veterans
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STL History Minute | Missouri Rockets
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STL History Minute | Fagin Building
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STL History Minute | Frederick Law Olmsted Reflects on St. Louisans in 1863
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STL History Minute | Thomas Easterly
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The Shocking St. Louis Browns 1944 American League Pennant Win
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STL History Minute | Tower Grove Park
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STL History Minute | Treemonisha
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STL History Minute | Elijah Lovejoy
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STL History Minute | Social Evil Ordinance
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STL History Minute | The Continental Building
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The Umbrella Duel
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STL History Minute | Gateway Arch Design Competition
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The River Queen
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Lost Cemeteries and Body Snatchers
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Eurasian Tree Sparrow
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STL History Minute | Fairground Park Pool Riots
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Frozen Mississippi
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New Military Medals at Soldiers Memorial Military Museum
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STL History Minute | Greenwood Cemetery
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Celebrating Love with Artifacts from Soldiers Memorial's Collection
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STL History Minute | Debate over the St. Louis Zoo Location
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STL History Minute | Vulcan Statue at the 1904 World's Fair
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St. Louis Baby Tooth Survey
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STL History Minute | Anna Maria von Phul
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Barnum's Hotel
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STL History Minute | Sievers Photography Collection
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Pruitt–Igoe
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President Grant's Love Story
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STL History Minute | President Franklin D. Roosevelt Dedicates Soldiers Memorial Military Museum
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STL History Minute | Wireless Telegraph at the 1904 World's Fair
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Satchel Paige and St. Louis
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Flounder House
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Charlie on the Bridge
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The History of Soldiers Memorial
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How the St Louis Tradition of Sledding on Art Hill Began
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The Honey War
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STL History Minute | Claude Hartland: The Story of a Life
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St. Louis History Minute | Baby Tooth Survey
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STL Rowing Clubs
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The Missouri Crematory
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Bloody Island Duel
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STL History Minute | St. Louis Soccer History
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Dr. Diuguid
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Shelley v Kraemer
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First Forward Pass
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Schoolchildren Buy an Elephant for the STL Zoo
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4th of July Celebrations in the Early 1800s
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Wheel Fever
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First Presidential Flight
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Blewett Junior High
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Wireless Telegraphy
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STL History Minute | Vietnam Memorial Wall at Soldiers Memorial Military Museum
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Green Eyes
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STL History Minute | Listerine
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Patricia McKissack
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STL History Minute | Arthur Ashe
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Bernie Hayes
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St. Louis History Minute | Anna the Wolf
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Aeronautic Competition
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The Dred Scott Case
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Phillis Wheatley Y.W.C.A.
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The Historical Legacy of William Joseph Blue: A Musical Journey Through History
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Margaret Bush Wilson
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STL History Minute | Jazzoo
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St. Louis History Minute | Iron Riders
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STL History Minute | Walker Hancock Sculptures at Soldiers Memorial Military Museum
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The History Making Work of St Louis Effort for AIDS
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Trailblazer in Veterinary Medicine
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STL Election History
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Elizabeth Keckley
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Sledding on Art Hill
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Soldiers Memorial Military Museum
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Pine Street Specter
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