We went inside a secret basement under Grand Central that was one of the...
Hidden 10 stories below Grand Central Terminal, a secret basement can be found. This basement was a prime New York City target during World War II, as it provided electricity for trains in the...
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The most significant flight of all time took place 45 years ago
They’ve got a list going over at The Atlantic: What Was the Most Significant Airplane Flight in History?Flight of the Enola Gay, that’s a heavy one. And from my friend Christine Negroni: “In 1914,...
View ArticleYou can buy this Polish prison with a dark history for $275,000
A Polish prison in the town of Leczyca is on the market. Formerly a monastery during the Spanish Inquisition, the prison would later house notorious criminals and political prisoners. The prison...
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The CIA built a secret and groundbreaking mobile text messaging system in the...
One of the most significant US intelligence operations in modern history took place in the heart of Soviet Moscow, during an especially dangerous period of the Cold War.From 1979 to 1985 — a span that...
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How to learn from financial history
What does it mean to learn from history and can it make you a better investment professional?Economic and financial history have been experiencing a “revival” in the aftermath of the global financial...
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This map shows the US really has 11 separate 'nations' with entirely...
In his fourth book, "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures in North America," award-winning author Colin Woodard identifies 11 distinct cultures that have historically...
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Here's the event that triggered World War I
Riding in an open car on the morning of June 27, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo,...
View ArticleAnimated map shows how Christianity spread across the world
Christianity is currently the world's largest religion with over 2 billion followers. Beginning with the son of a Jewish carpenter, the religion was spread around the world first by Jesus's disciples,...
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A stranded Dutch warship evaded Japanese bombers in WWII by disgusing itself...
Sometimes in life, the guy with the drunken, so-crazy-it-just-might-work ideas hits one out of the park and saves the day.This is clearly what happened in 1942 aboard the HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, the...
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The mysterious identity of 4 critical leaders who shaped civilization in...
Four lost leaders of the first permanent English settlement in the Americas have been identified, thanks to chemical analysis of their skeletons, as well as historical documents.The settlement leaders...
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Bankers found this 'sensational' love note in a vault that's been untouched...
Vienna (AFP) - "Please forgive me for what I've done, I could not resist love" -- these are the final dramatic words of Baroness Mary Vetsera, whose farewell letters were discovered in a bank vault in...
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The AP just put one million minutes of historical footage on YouTube — here...
The Associated Press and partner British Movietone have made 120 years of historical news footage available online for the first time ever by uploading 550,000 YouTube videos.That adds up to over one...
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Audio of an historic speech Japan's emperor gave at the end of World War II...
TOKYO (AP) — The 4 ½-minute speech that has reverberated throughout Japan's modern history since it was delivered by Emperor Hirohito at the end of World War II has come back to life in digital...
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The strange history of cologne
If you're a perfume aficionado, you probably know the basics of the modern history of perfume.You know how Guerlain and Coty were the first big companies to mass-produce perfume, you know that Chanel...
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It's been 25 years since Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait
A quarter century ago, after Saddam Hussein's Iraqi army successfully invaded and took over the tiny Persian Gulf nation of Kuwait, President George H.W. Bush famously drew a line in the sand against...
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The real story behind one of the most shocking images of World War II
It's probably one of the best-known images of World War II, the enduring photograph that captures the last seconds of Leonard Siffleet's life.The photograph came to light after US troops discovered it...
View ArticleHumans evolved over millions of years — watch the whole process in less than...
Modern humans have been in the making for over 500 million years.Back then, vertebrates (animals with a spinal cord or backbone) were the new kids on Earth. Over a long, long time, those early...
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These were 4 of the most amazing escapes in military history
1. The Green Beret founder of Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training used a math problem to trick the Viet Cong. In the grand scheme of things, the Vietnam War tends to get the short...
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The 400-year history of the American home in one gorgeous chart
The average American family may be getting smaller and smaller, but the houses have grown bigger than ever. In the last 40 years, the single-family American house has expanded in area by 61%. If four...
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The story of the most important Cold War spy most people have never heard of
One of the most significant US intelligence operations in modern history took place in the heart of Soviet Moscow, during one of the most dangerous stretches of the Cold War.From 1979 to 1985, a span...
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