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Republican presidential candidates had trouble answering this very basic...
There are only five living US presidents, but many of the Republican 2016 hopefuls seem to have trouble ranking them.Last weekend during the Freedom Summit in Greeneville, South Carolina, CNN's Chris...
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The greatest European military leaders of all time
Over centuries of inter-state conflict on the continent Europe has seen a number of remarkable military leaders come and go.The common thread linking all those who reached the very top of that...
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Why the Mongols were the greatest empire in world history
This answer by History buff Balaji Viswanathan originally appeared on Quora as an answer to the question: What was the greatest empire in world history?The Mongols would be my top choice. They have...
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What it was like to fight the Japanese Kamikaze
Seventy years ago Britain rejoiced. War in Europe was over. The British Army and the RAF were still fighting against the Japanese in the jungles of Burma, but for other British forces, peace finally...
View ArticleThis animated map shows how humans migrated across the globe
It's tough to know what happened on Earth thousands of years before anyone started writing anything down. But thanks to the amazing work of anthropologists and paleontologists like those working on...
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See startling photos of brain surgery's earliest patients
For more than three decades, two amazing relics of medical history lay rotting underneath a Yale University dorm—Dr. Harvey Cushing’s collection of brains, and his collection of patient photography....
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Here's never-before-seen footage of the Israeli military withdrawing from...
Fifteen years after the Israeli army withdrew from Lebanon in May 2000, the Defense Ministry released footage of the last convoys returning to the border under fire and the demolition of the infamous...
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This Space-Age LA diner where 'Mad Men' was dreamed up is now a historic...
A Los Angeles diner celebrated as a classic example of mid-20th century Space Age-style Googie architecture was granted historic monument status by city officials on Wednesday, protecting it from the...
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Thomas Edison conducted the first job interview in 1921 — here's how they've...
The job interview was born in 1921, when Thomas Edison created a written test to evaluate job candidates' knowledge. Since then, the process has come a long way."As the work world continues to grow and...
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This incredible map lets New Yorkers see vintage photos of their street corners
Old photos have an uncanny way of connecting us to our past and creating a window to see back in time. And fortunately for a city like New York, with such a rich history, there are a lot of vintage...
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A new interactive website is essentially Google Maps street view for old time...
Beneath the present-day surface that every city shows to the world, there are shadows of the city as it was in previous eras. In some places—Rome is a good example—that ghost city of the past lives...
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View ArticleA brief history of the 'original American whiskey' and the cocktail that...
Whiskey is experiencing a huge comeback in America.Walk into any trendy New York City bar today and you'll almost certainly find a variety of bourbons and Scotches on the shelf and a handful of...
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Here's what Brooklyn looked like in the summer of 1974
This Monday is Memorial Day, the unofficial start to Summer across New York City and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere.To celebrate the impending summer months, we've culled together this beautiful...
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The Soviet Union's fall led to an alarming nuclear failure that informs...
The collapse of the Soviet Union created one of the biggest security challenges of recent decades: The task of securing fissile material left unguarded after the empire's rapid collapse and...
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This 16th-century swimming manual is surprisingly helpful
In 1587, during the Tudor period, Cambridge theologian Everard Digby published "De Art Natandi," or "The Art of Swimming," as a practical guide for people who wanted to learn to swim. It's the first...
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Why people say 'bless you' after sneezing
It's allergy season again, so there's a lot of sneezing going around.Sneezing can be caused by crazy things like being too full, seeing a bright light, or even orgasm. For how common sneezing is —...
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Archaeologists discover the world's oldest known murder victim
In Northern Spain, the crumbling skeletons of 28 early humans who died approximately 430,000 years ago sit in an underground cave system. Their cause of death — and how they ended up in a pile at the...
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7 times alcohol decided the course of battle
Historians always want to talk about how battles were won with a general’s brilliance or a unit’s bravery.But sometimes they are decided in somewhat less elegant ways. For instance, here are seven...
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An Israeli paratrooper describes the moment Israel secured the Western Wall...
The following passage comes from an interview in "The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War," with Capt. Yoram Zamosh, a company commander in Israeli Paratroop Battalion 71 during the 1967...
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