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17 Of The Most Influential Freemasons Ever
The Freemasons, a fraternal organization developed from the stonemasons, include more than 6 million members worldwide.Despite nearing 300 years of activity, the Freemasons remain mysterious, with many...
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The First Publicly Traded Company In History Used To Control All This Territory
On this date in 1602, the Dutch East India Company, known around the world as the VOC (for Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, United East-India Company referring to the country's union after driving...
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5 Powerful Leadership Lessons From Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln gets a lot of credit for being a great leader. And he deserves it, but frankly, most of us don’t really know why he deserves it.What made him such an extraordinary leader? And does...
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Here's What 'OK' Really Means
We use it to describe how we're feeling, if we agree, or even just to start a sentence — the word "OK."But what do these two letters really mean, and why do we use them so often?One theory claims OK...
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Is Your City An Elegant Grid Or A Sprawling Chaotic Mess?
If you hate driving in your city, the following charts may help explain why.Vizual Statstix's Seth Kadish has cooked up some really cool charts showing the grid orientation — or lack thereof — of major...
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Check Out This Two-Page Income Tax Form From 1911
Last week one of Business Insider's contributors, Bankers Anonymous, posted a neat picture of a Youngstown, Ohio, steelworker's tax return from the 1940s.You guys loved it, and we loved it, and...
View ArticleThis 40-Second Tape Clip Earned An American POW And Future Senator A Navy Cross
Jeremiah Denton, a former Navy rear admiral and U.S. senator from Alabama who survived nearly eight years of captivity in Vietnamese prisons, has died aged 89.In 1965, Denton was captured by North...
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11 Fascinating Things I Never Knew About The History Of Manhattan
A few months ago I published a history of how private English entrepreneurs were America's first settlers. But their businesses basically failed, and it took wealthy religious separatists to get...
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Black Death Grave Reveals Secrets Of 14th Century Life
Skeletons dug up by Crossrail, a massive railway project in London, are giving scientists a more detailed look at the bubonic plague, or Black Death, that swept through Europe in the 1300s.Studies of...
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These Goofy-Looking Reptiles Ruled The Skies For Millions Of Years
The first non-insect animal to evolve powered flight wasn't the bird, but a fuzzy reptile called the pterosaur. These animals ruled Mesozoic skies for 150 million years, soaring above the dinosaurs....
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The Real Story Of Pocahontas Is Much Darker Than The Disney Movie
In 1995, Disney introduced children everywhere to a Native American princess married 400 years ago today — Pocahontas. The plot goes that Pocahontas, the beautiful daughter of Chief Powhatan, saves...
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This Crazy Gadget Shows How Hard It Once Was To Shave At Home
When 21-year-old Erik Fritz Unneland opened an old box in his parents’ living room, he had no idea what was inside."It was in a glass table in our living room in Norway, I just never bothered to open...
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30 Amazing Before-And-After Snapshots That Show How New York Has Transformed...
Graphic designer Paul Sahner has been taking pictures of New York's streets since he moved to the city nine years ago. He loves the feeling of capturing an ever-shifting urban landscape for posterity...
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Message In A Bottle Returns To Sender's Granddaughter After 101 Years Lost At...
It's the kind of story you'd think could only be found in books; a message in a bottle returns home after a century of floating out at sea.But last month, a fisherman pulled the beer bottle out of the...
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A World-Changing Volcanic Eruption That No One Talks About Happened 199 Years...
Most have heard of the Battle of Waterloo, but who has heard of the volcano called Tambora? No school textbook I've seen mentions that only two months before Napoleon's final defeat in Belgium on June...
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How 9 Countries Saw Inflation Explode Into Hyperinflation (UUP, UDP)
Hyperinflationary episodes have appeared several times over the past century — 55, to be exact— as the world's nations have experimented with fiat currencies backed by the full faith and credit of the...
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Three Charts Show How Healthcare Costs Have Exploded Since 1960
Most people know that the costs of healthcare in the United States are high. But an infographic from The Advisory Board Company illustrates that it hasn't always been this way.Take a look at how...
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One Chart Shows How Much Americans Love To Drink
Is the constant smoking and drinking in Mad Men exaggerated? Maybe not.In those halcyon days before we knew cigarettes could really kill us, a staggering percentage of Americans smoked openly and...
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This 50-Year Chart Of Horses And Mules Teaches Us Something Very Important...
The Conversable Economist, aka Timothy Taylor, has a new post discussing how long it takes for the gains from new technologies to be fully realized. He asks:Has the U.S. economy already seen most of...
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