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Fireworks on the Fourth of July
Fireworks have been part and parcel of U.S. Independence Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, since its first celebration in July 1777.
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Republicans v. Fascists
In 1936 Nationalist rebels staged an uprising against Spain’s Republican government, sparking a bloody civil war that lasted until 1939, when the Nationalists and Francisco Franco assumed power.