Benjamin Banneker, the Black Mathematician Who May Have Saved Washington, D.C.
The U.S. capital might have been a very different place if not for the surveying work of Benjamin Banneker.
The U.S. capital might have been a very different place if not for the surveying work of Benjamin Banneker.
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