The first woman ever elected to serve a full term as United States Senator was Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway. While the first woman to ever serve on the United S...
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Almost everyone has heard of the famous Delphic Oracle. Whether it was from a school textbook, a documentary heralding the en...
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New Year's Day seems like one of those facts of life that has always existed. The sun goes down on the old year and rises with the new. ...
Let’s get this out right away. This is not history for the faint of heart. If you are sensitive to stories, which include harm to animals, you should read this ...
"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...
