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The capsule bounced in the waves for twenty-one minutes, until the navy destroyer Noa picked him up.

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Just twenty-one years after World War I ended, World War II erupted, killing four times as many people.

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One hundred twenty-one of the 594 athletes on the American team — more than one in five — are from the state.

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When they turned twenty-one, however, their lives and relationship changed permanently.

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“If you’re coming and you’re over twenty-one, my question is, ‘why now?’” he explained, referring to the legal buying age in Florida.

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