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On February 11, 1847 in Ohio, Thomas Alva Edison was born in Milan, Ohio. At a young age he had acquired a hearing problem after ...
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Known for novels such as Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, and David Copperfield, Charles Dickens is considered one of ...
“What we saw before us, as well as his modest prose about his ‘cabin-castle’ — we bought it...We bought it for over a century.” - Bon-Harper, executive director...
One of the most influential people in the computer industry, Gordon Moore has accomplished many life-changing feats. Most of which have and will continue to sha...
Thus far on History's nutcases, we've had a good mix of the harmless, like King George III, and the utterly diabolical, like last week's Nero. This week, we're ...
Some may consider Emily Brontë a one hit wonder in the literary world. Besides one book of poems she collaborated with Anne on, Emily is known for the only nove...
In May of 1972, seven burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee’s office in the Watergate building located in Washington, D.C. The burglars wiretapp...
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Death penalty laws go way back to the eighteenth century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon. During the tenth century A.D., h...
New York City, the largest city in the United States, originally began when the Dutch West India company sent about thirty families to live on “Nutten Island”, ...
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Arguably one of the most important discoveries in Egyptology is still surprising and perplexing archaeologists to this day, accor...