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ENNENDI PLATEAU, CHAD - a UNESCO World Heritage Site deep in the Sahara desert has been all but destroyed by graffiti. Cha...
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Last time, on History's Badasses, we talked about the woman who founded the Red Cross: Clara Barton. This week, we're turning our...
Thomas Paine is perhaps best remembered for his influential pamphlets written at the start of the American Revolution, Common Sense (1776) especially. He was an...
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ZHENGZHOU, HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA - Archaeologists working just west of the Yellow River discovered a mysterious find: a tomb that e...
Born Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was a military officer in the American Revolution from Prussia. ...
“Last Tuesday they called me to announce the big discovery of a colossus of a king, most probably Ramses II, made out of quartzite," - Egyptian antiquties minis...
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We hear about it all the time. It was a pivotal point in European history, paving the way for centuries of history afterward, but ...
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OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND - In a twist of events, an antiques expert visiting Blenheim Palace realized that one of the building's flower pots ...
Women have played a significant role in American political history. By the time the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, many states had already given women votin...
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was the first woman to serve on both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate. She served on the former from Main...
