"The goal of our research is to understand, among other things, what led to the end of the huge settlement and how its last inhabitants lived." - Professor Arka...
Throughout history, a huge number of famous faces have served their time behind bars. Going to prison has shaped the destinies of countless amounts of people, h...
In the good old days, if you wanted to rob a bank, you grabbed a mask and gun, then held up a bank. Today’s thieves are a little more surgical. Rather than stea...
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In December of 1914, bitter battles were fought in the trenches along the western front of World War I. The trenches were a horrific pl...
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Hanukkah, or Chanukkah, the Jewish festival of re-dedication, sometimes known as the festival of lights, overlaps with Christmas thi...
The human race has been celebrating the holiday of Christmas for a very long time - about a thousand years, actually. Of course, no matter what time period in h...
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Kwanzaa is the newest addition to the winter holidays. It was created fifty years ago, and since it's so new, it's often misunders...
On January 16th, 2014, as Hiroo Onoda exhaled his last breath, his battle with pneumonia ended with a heart attack. After 91 years he’d fought many battles. Wha...
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We all know Socrates as the classical Greek philosopher who is credited with being one of the main founders of modern thought. However, Soc...
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Nothing says Christmas more than snow on the ground outside, a fire burning in the fireplace, a beautifully decorated Christmas tree,...
