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Small mosques may have been built in America in the 16th century, but these structures constructed later persist to this day.
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Americans born in or with ancestral ties to Arab-speaking countries have made countless significant scientific, medical and engineering contributions.
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The Washington Capitals captain, 39, scored his 895th career goal against the New York Islanders, breaking Wayne Gretzky’s 26-year-old record.
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The nearly 100-year-old endangered Galapagos tortoise, a resident of the Philadelphia Zoo since 1932, became the oldest of her species to ever give birth.
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