stackyFACTSWe frequently compartmentalize history into distinct, disconnected eras, but chronological overlaps can be jarring. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Holocaust victim Anne Frank were both born in 1929, entirely shifting our perspective on their respective historical epochs.
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