The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic, which killed somewhere between 20 million and 50 million people,...
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Algebra doesn’t have one single origin point -- it developed over time and in multiple places,...
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The story of the Batavia is a perfect storm of nautical carnage: There's a shipwreck, a mutiny...
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She was not a shy spinster who wrote some little books mostly to amuse her own family. She also...
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Casanova led a life so full of sex and adventure that today we call any particularly charismatic...
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Crown Prince Sado of Korea -- sometimes called Korea's "Coffin King" -- has been described as...
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The Battle of Hastings is often boiled it down to a sentence: The Normans invaded Britain in...
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For many people, Laura Ingalls Wilder is the primary source of information of what life was like...
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Despite all the publicity surrounding the shooting of John F. Kennedy, the identity of one...
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In addition to being a poet, Audre was a teacher, speaker, wife and mother, and become an...
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Audre Lorde called herself a “black feminist lesbian mother poet warrior,” but for a lot of...
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In 1848, Phineas Gage experienced a catastrophic brain injury and survived -- though altered --...
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She’s often referred to as a cursed ghost ship. The history of the Mary Celeste features one...
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The Phoenicians were great ship-builders, sailors and textile experts. But they're most known for...
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"Vladimir I is often credited with bringing Christianity to Russia, though he actually embraced...
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This massive medieval manuscript, nicknamed “The Devil’s Bible,” contains multiple lengthy...
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The Sham Battle and the Cochecho Massacre
It was half performance for the British troops, and half actual sham, and it led to an attack on...
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In the late 1800s, seven sisters with musical talent and incredibly long hair made waves in the...
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The eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt was a firebrand who never shied away from the public...
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Henry Gerber and Chicago’s Society for Human Rights
In the 1920s, the Society for Human Rights was founded in Chicago with the intent to...
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