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It was December of 1835. Texas was fighting a bloody battle for independence from Mexico. It was at an old Franciscan mission called ...
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The face you're looking at is 3,700 years old. Her name is Ava, and she was created using top-of-the-line facial reconstruction software and...
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Last time on Battles that Made History, we talked about the legendary Battle of the 300, commonly known as Thermopylae, where Spar...
“Modern medicine tends to assume that cancers and tumours in humans are diseases caused by modern lifestyles and environments. Our studies show the origins of t...
First invented in the 1860s, the typewriter was very popular, and used for any type of writing, with the exception of personal letters and correspondence. By th...
A recent discovery has revealed that carnivorous dinosaurs may have been roaming around South America for much longer than we've previously believed. A record-s...
It's hard to imagine a world without the Mona Lisa, the Bill of Rights, and even Walt Whitman's original notebooks. Luckily for us, these once lost objects have...
Known for her beautiful memoir I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings, Maya Angelou is a critically acclaimed poet. Angelou has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize an...
On September 16, 1620, 102 English passengers set sail on the Mayflower as it made its way from Plymouth and arrived in Cape Cod in November of the same yea...
An interesting discovery was found within a convent in Naples, Italy. Within the margins of a medieval manuscript, researchers found what appear to be doodles t...