The Achaemenid Empire was founded by Cyrus II in the 6th century BCE, and it became an empire...
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She was a black Canadian-American who became the first woman in North America to publish and edit...
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We're halfway through the year, and we have SO MANY unearthed items already! So, after polling...
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When three escaped slaves showed up at a Union position during the U.S. Civil War, the decision...
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Yosemite and James Hutchings, Pt. 1
Once Yosemite had been seen by white men, it became the focus of a great deal of attention, both...
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The Harlem Hellfighters and Henry Johnson
In WWI, a black U.S. Army unit became one of the most decorated of the war. When these soldiers...
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The Life and Times of Sir Isaac Newton
You may know the apple/gravity story, but Isaac Newton's life was so much more than that. Not...
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More of the 2015 news items of historical significance! The second part of this topic includes...
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In 1888, a blizzard so sudden and severe hit the American Midwest and claimed the lives of...
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Courrières Mine Disaster of 1906
One of the worst mining tragedies in history, the explosion that sent fire through the Courrières...
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In early modern London, there was a tradition of sorts where apprentices would amass on holidays...
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While Michelangelo's sculpture of Mary holding the deceased body of Christ is the most famous...
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Jimmy Doolittle and the Doolittle Raid
The Doolittle Raid was an attack on Japan launched by the U.S. in retaliation for Pearl Harbor....
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China and Japan After the Doolittle Raid
After the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, the punishment that Japanese forces doled out in China for...
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The Great Vowel Shift, or A Brief History of English
Language is alive. It shifts and changes; pronunciations and spellings morph throughout time....
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WASP of WWII with Dr. Katherine Sharp Landdeck, Part 1
The Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII was formed to see if women could fly military aircraft,...
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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
No starving artist, Vigée Le Brun was the first woman to ever become a court painter in France...
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Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun
No starving artist, Vigée Le Brun was the first woman to ever become a court painter in France...
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Six Impossible Episodes: Possible Apocrypha
We get a lot of requests for topics that are very interesting, but for which there's very little...
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