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Home Schooling
Lee Ann Rubsam

Home schooling has been a part of American heritage since the days of the country’s founding. The first immigrants, as well as the pioneers who moved westward in later years, home schooled their children by necessity until they were able to establish community schools. Fourteen of the forty-three United States presidents were home schooled, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson. Inventors Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, Generals Douglas MacArthur and George Patton, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and composer Irving Berlin were all home schooled for at least part of their educational careers.
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Bozeman, Montana
Jeremy Soldevilla

Bozeman is nestled in the Gallatin Valley of South Central Montana, which for thousands of years was a sacred healing place known as the Valley of the Flowers to many Native American tribes including the Blackfeet, Sioux and Nez Perce. Today it is home to a broad spectrum of people from professors, artists and ranchers to outdoorsmen, students and active retirees. The population is diverse but predominated by descendents of European settlers from Germany, Norway, Ireland and Holland.
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Randall Davidson

Unlike many countries, the United States does not have a domestic government-run radio service. However, some radio stations in the U.S. are “non-commercial,” which means they do not run advertisements and are operated on a non-profit basis. Most are on the FM band and the stations from 88.1 to 91.9 mHz are reserved for non-commercial use. There are several types of non-commercial radio stations:

Public radio stations are typically run by a university or a local non-profit organization. The stations usually broadcast radio programs from National Public Radio, a network that distributes high-quality news programs and other offerings. The stations also usually air programs from two other networks, Public Radio International and American Public Media.
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