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Charles Lee was a war general in the American Revolution against Britain. He also served under Britain for the Seven Years...
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At the 2,400 Years World Congress, which marks 2,400 years since Aristotle's birth, archaeologist Konstantinos Sismanidis presented a p...
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ANGKOR, CAMBODIA - it's a phenomenon that archaeologists are struggling to explain: huge fields of row upon row of earthen dome-shaped mo...
If you're an American Horror Story fan, then you've probably heard of Madame LaLaurie. Lalaurie was portrayed by Kathy Bates in the the third season of American...
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MANTEO, NC - Pottery shards that may have belonged to part of a medicine jar from the famous lost colony of Roanoke have been found b...
“I could but esteem this moment of my departure as among the most happy of my life.” - Meriwether Lewis
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Last time, on History's Badasses,...
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ALSACE, FRANCE - Archaeologists seem to have unearthed the remains of a neolithic massacre going back 6,000 years.
A group of researc...
Known for the revolutionary novel, The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger makes our list for one of the most influential writers of all time. After his famous no...
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, exploring was the thing to do. Europe was just now discovering that there were lands beyond their small stretch of...
The first ever bicycle like device dates back to the 1490s. Leonardo da Vinci sketched one similar to what is now known as the bicycle. However, he never built ...