BTW – Stuff You Should Know – Page 118 – McGraw-Hill's Social Studies Current Events

President Barack Obama walks through the Rose Garden to the Oval Office following an all-appointees summer event on the South Lawn, June 13, 2016. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza. https://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/photogallery/june-2016-photo-day.

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June 22, 2016 btwuser 0

British MP Killed Over Brexit Back in April, btw brought you news of a possible “Brexit”. Last month, the British parliament suffered a personal casualty. […]

Montaged illustration of road signs of a question mark, exclamation point, arrows and ampersat symbol.

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June 17, 2016 btwuser 0

New Periodic Table Elements Science classrooms all over will have to update their poster of the periodic table. The names of four new elements (with […]

A pedestrian passes a mural of Muhammad Ali painted on the side of a building Monday, June 6, 2016, in Louisville, Ky.

Remembering “The Greatest”

June 16, 2016 btwuser 0

The year 2016 has been an especially significant one for deaths of our country’s heroes. The most recent loss to create a significant void is […]

Yellow belly blue tang. © McGraw-Hill Education. MHE World.

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June 9, 2016 btwuser 0

U.S. Women’s Soccer Team Fights for Equal Pay In March, five members of the women’s soccer team playing for the United States in the upcoming […]

YOU DECIDE: The Cincinnati Zoo Gorilla Incident

June 8, 2016 btwuser 0

On May 28, a four-year old boy climbed through a barrier to the Gorilla World exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo in Ohio and dropped fifteen […]

Close-up, selective focus view of the word 'Study' written in Chinese in a Chinese-English translation dictionary. ©Y H Lim / Alamy Stock Photo. MHE World

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June 2, 2016 btwuser 0

Smart Shoes? You might already have a chip in your shoes that tracks your distance, pace or duration. What if your shoes could do more . […]

Space shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on Launch Pad A and Endeavour on Launch Pad B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. At the left of each shuttle are the open rotating service structures with the payload changeout rooms revealed. The rotating service structures provide protection for weather and access to the shuttle. For the first time since July 2001; two shuttles are on the launch pads at the same time. Endeavour will stand by at pad B in the unlikely event that a rescue mission is necessary during Atlantis' upcoming STS-125 mission to repair NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Troy Cryder/NASA. MHE World

The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Space Coast

June 1, 2016 btwuser 0

In 2011, NASA retired its 30-year-old shuttle program when Atlantis returned from its mission, touching down at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. […]

Selective focus close-up view of a small, transparent glass globe of the earth placed in front of a computer monitor displaying Facebook. The globe creates a fisheye magnification of the word 'facebook' on the screen. As of today, Facebook is the largest social media network on the web. ©dolphfyn / Alamy. MHE World

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May 28, 2016 btwuser 0

EgyptAir Crash Update Earlier this month, EgyptAir Flight 804 disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea. There were 66 people aboard, including crew. The flight departed from […]

Close-up selective focus view of a row of empty swing seats at a playground in Chung Hsing New Village, Taiwan. michaeliao27/Getty Images. MHE Canada;MHE USA

Get in the Park!

May 26, 2016 btwuser 0

Parks have been around for as long as people have thought to designate some green space for tossing around a ball or spreading out a […]

Sunrise shining on Big Ben, London, United Kingdom. ©Spaces Images/Blend Images LLC. MHE World

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May 20, 2016 btwuser 0

New Brazilian Leadership Last month, btw brought you a story of significant conflict within Brazil’s government. Since then, President Dilma Rousseff has been “suspended” from […]