In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many Europeans moved to colonial America in part to escape religious oppression.

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Woodcuts were also a widely used artistic form in Japan from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.

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This week in our series, Shep O'Neal and Tony Riggs begin the story of America's seventeenth president.

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Signs on some of the houses say they were built as long ago as the seventeenth century.

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Yet,Joshua Abraham Norton declared himself to be Emperor of the United States on September seventeenth, eighteen fifty-nine.

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Every year,he says, ospreys return to Poplar Island to build their homes on March seventeenth.

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One red and gold carpet from the seventeenth century has complex patterns and animal designs.

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On this day,September seventeenth, he has finished his second draft of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.

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Nautilus was put to sea for the first time on January seventeenth, nineteen fifty-five.

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In the seventeenth century, important men in Europe began to wear false hair,called wigs.

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On June seventeenth, nineteen twenty-eight, the plane left the eastern province of Newfoundland,Canada.

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September seventeenth, eighteen sixty-two, becomes the single bloodiest day in American military history.

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The Army of the Potomac began to move on March seventeenth, eighteen sixty-two.

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On April seventeenth, the convention voted to take Virginia out of the Union.

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