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Welcome to Kennections, a weekly quiz created by Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings. Here's how to play: All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?

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Hold onto your hat, because little is known about the real origin of the phrase. Here’s what we do know.

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Legend has it that a heroic American commander at the Battle of Bunker Hill implored his men to hold their fire until their ...

In spring 1863, The Atlantic published a feature on Sojourner Truth written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which inspired activist ...

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The United States is short on educators. According to estimates from Brown University, there are roughly 55,000 vacant K-12 ...

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