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On land, if you rose to the top of a five-hundred-foot eminence—Cologne Cathedral or the Washington Monument, say—the change in pressure would be so slight as to be indiscernible. At the same depth underwater, however, your veins would collapse and your lungs would compress to the approximate dimensions of a Coke can.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
By 2011, black teachers no longer were a majority in D.C. schools; just eight years before, they had comprised 77 percent of the teaching force.
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
Your neighborhood is only as diverse as its housing stock. Here is a map of neighborhoods with exclusionary zoning (yellow) and census tracks with the highest portion of white households (blue). https://t.co/gxLt3bE69f
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