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9 Interesting Facts About Jeff Bezos From The Big New Amazon Book
A new book documenting the history of Amazon's birth and growth was released earlier this month, and it's given us a bunch of new information about Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of the company.Entitled...
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Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Totally Overshadowed This Guy’s Two-Hour Speech...
One hundred and fifty years ago, on Nov. 19, 1863, famed orator and former Secretary of State Edward Everett delivered a two-hour speech at the Gettysburg National Cemetery — but most people only...
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Here Are The First 4 Women In History To Complete Marine Infantry Training
Every Marine knows Opha Mae Johnson, the first woman who ever enlisted in the Marine Corps.Now almost 100 years later, the first four females in history have completed the grueling 59-day infantry...
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14 Historical 'Facts' That Are Completely False
Blame Hollywood, the media, and even history teachers for perpetuating certain totally ridiculous or unfounded "facts" about history.We're here to debunk some of the biggest myths.1. Jewish slaves...
View ArticleSee 5,000 Years Of Religious Evolution In Just 90 Seconds
Religion is one of the most powerfully motivating forces in the world.Intrigued by religious wars and the territorial spread of religion, the amazing website Maps Of War created an animated 90-second...
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How The Economic Center Of Gravity Moved Around The World From AD 1 To AD...
The Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard re-circulated this popular map from McKinsey on Twitter today."McKinsey's dramatic global power shift. Conventional wisdom, but is it still true?" he tweeted....
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Here's How Much Your Thanksgiving Dinner Would Have Cost A Century Ago
The average Thanksgiving Day dinner this year will cost $49.04, 44 cents less than it did in 2012.The American Farm Bureau Federation estimates the cost of Thanksgiving around the country every year...
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The 89-Year Evolution Of The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Over the past 89 years, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has become an irreplaceable staple of Thanksgiving festivities. Every year, 3.5 million people flock to the streets of Manhattan to see the...
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The True Story About How America Was First Settled By Profit-Seeking Speculators
England’s first colonies in the New World were profit-seeking corporations. As with any wave of firms entering a radically new sector, it took some flameouts and consolidation for what might be called...
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25 Books That Changed The Course Of History
Every reader knows that a book can change your life.But what about the lives of an entire generation? Can a book change the future?Miriam Tuliao, assistant director of central collection development at...
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After Prohibition, Distillers Paid Out Dividends In Cases Of Whiskey And...
In 1933, a precedent was set for paying whisky as a dividend on common stock. As I have discussed in an earlier blog, entitled The Famous Whiskey Dividend, companies can invent creative ways to pay...
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The First-Ever Christmas Tree At Rockefeller Center Was Pretty Pathetic [PHOTO]
The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree will be lit tonight with hundreds of thousands of spectators in attendance and performances by Ariana Grande, Leona Lewis, and Toni Braxton.The first Rockefeller...
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Nelson Mandela Never Said One Of His Most Famous 'Quotes'
In 1993, Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize for their tireless work ending apartheid in South Africa. Mandela had recently spent 27 years behind bars for his...
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17 Of The Most Unforgettable Moments From Nelson Mandela's Life
Nelson Mandela, who died this week at the age of 95, was one of the most influential people of the 20th century.In a century that saw both institutionalized racism at its worst and unprecedented...
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Many College Professors Started Using Grade Inflation To Protect Bad Students...
College grade inflation is in the news this week following the revelation that the most common grade given to Harvard University undergraduates is an "A."Two of the biggest questions around grade...
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Why Many Cities Are Located In The Wrong Place
The world is urbanising rapidly (World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision). Some of its rapidly growing cities, however, seem to be misplaced. They are located in places hampered by poor access...
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How 3 Countries Lost Their Position As The World's Dominant Financial Power...
Global Financial Data has put together an index of government bond yields stretching back seven centuries. This index uses government bond yields from the leading economic powers of each century to...
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The Historical Origins Of 6 Swear Words
Sometimes, everyday speech just can't convey your meaning. You need words with a little more oomph — expletives.In fact, Americans swear so often, the U.S. made airing indecent or profane language...
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How John Keely Screwed Investors And Tricked The World With His Perpetual...
Would you have liked to have invested in the greatest invention of all time? A machine that almost revolutionized the world and could have provided cheap, efficient energy to mankind for centuries to...
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The Wright Brothers May Not Be The 'First In Flight'
Orville and Wilbur Wright, widely known as the fathers of modern aviation, supposedly flew the first plane in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. on Dec. 17, 1903. Their feat was so momentous that license plates in...
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