“This is truly astonishing. As far as I know there is no known example of the discovery of an individual historically connected with an act of war as far back a...
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In 1901, just off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, the remains of one of the most baffling archaeological finds to date was lifted from a m...
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So we've taken a look at when it was built and who built it, and we've even taken a look at how the ancients used the megalithic structur...
Flannery O'Connor is known for short stories such as A Good Man is Hard to Find, Revelation, and Good Country People. O'Connor was considered one of the greats ...
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Amerigo Vespucci was born March 4, 1451 or 1454 (scholars say different things) in Florence, Italy to Lisabet...
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On September 2, 1666, a small fire began in a bakery on Pudding Lane. London was the largest city in the UK, having over 500...
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Last week on History's Nutcases, we met Charles VI. This week, we have yet another insane monarch for you, a monarch named Peter III. He w...
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Last week, we covered the early precursors to one of the world's most beloved genres of TV, movies, and literature: Science Fiction, or SciF...
The Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre were two events that inspired the American Revolution, which later led to the independence of the thirteen colonies...
Known for classics such as Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut emerged as a popular novelist during the 1960's. His work in satire and science-f...
