The first time humans sunk a ship with a submarine was the US Civil War. It was 1864. Military technology leading up to that time consisted of single-bullet mus...
The image of the cowboy is one that has been associated with American history for years. With the golden age rearing its head in 1866, the reign of the cowboy w...
An accomplished journalist and orator, German born Carl Christian Schurz became the first elected member of the United States Senate born in Germany in 1869. He...
For these artists, there was no luck involved. It was blood, sweat, and beers. In some cases, it was a healthy heaping of cocaine and heroin too, but that’s the...
Throughout history, there are heists and then there are hauls. If you accept the concept that nobody woke up then decided to become a big-time bank robber, then...
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Las Vegas today is one of the entertainment capitals of the world with what seems to be an endless list of things to do no matter what a...
As well as becoming one of the most celebrated American horror writers after his death, H. P. Lovecraft managed to achieve the impossible, carving out his very ...
Born in Darke County, Ohio on August 13, 1860, Annie Oakley's birth name was Phoebe Ann Mosey. After the death of both her father and eventually step father, sh...
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Nowadays we take the ability to take a photo for granted, considering there are cameras everywhere we look. But there was a time when taking a...
Up until the Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1920, women were unable to vote. After decades of women’s suffragists fighting for their rights, they were final...
