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NANGGU, SOLOMON ISLANDS - Archaeologists from Australia and New Zealand working on a Pacific site have discovered obsidian tools used for...
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A tablet made around 3100 to 3000 BC is the world's oldest paycheck. It's over 5,000 years old, and originated in the ancient Me...
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Last week on History's Badasses, we talked about Soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history, who rack...
History is forged in the fires of war and creativity. Throughout humanity's timeline, there have been a select view inventions that have absolutely altered the ...
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Gouverneur Morris, American Founding Father and “Penman of the Constitution”, was apart of the committee that drafted the U.S. Cons...
The largest economic crisis in the Western Civilization is known as the Great Depression. The stock market crash of October 1929, sent the entire U.S. into a pa...
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The War of 1812 began on June 18, 1812 when President James Madison declared war on Britain. Over twenty years before, Washington, D.C...
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Queen Mary I of England is best known for burning people of the Protestant faith and restoring England to Catholicism. She was giv...
The Roaring Twenties paved the way for social and political changes. We all remember the era as being a decade full of partying and "loose morals." However, the...
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Rome was an empire obsessed with violence. Citizens went to fighting pits that stood like temples to war and blood to watch gladiators f...
