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"Gulag" tells the story of Soviet forced-labor camps, and their prisoners, during the Stalinist age.
As oil continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, from the uncapped well at Mississippi Canyon 252, BP (British Petroleum) and the U.S. federal gover...
Around September of 1452, using his invention that changed the world, Gutenberg first released a publication from his movable-type printing press.
Johannes Gutenberg invented one of "the machines that made us."
Every November 5th, as bonfires burn, Britain celebrates being saved from a national catastrophe when Guy Fawkes was discovered with 36 barrels of gun...
When the earthquake struck Haiti on the 12th of January, 2010, massive damage and loss of life were not limited to Port-au-Prince and its immediate su...
An explosion-caused tsunami (on December 6, 1917) sends 18 meters (nearly 60 feet) of sea water above the high-water mark on the Halifax side of the h...
During 1758, Halley's Comet appeared over the Hawaiian Islands; the same day, King Kamehameha I was born.
Halloween has its roots in the Celtic people and their festival of Samhain (pronounced SAU-an). How do the scary parts of the holiday line-up with its...
Dr. Harold Gillies innovated a procedure known as the "tubed pedicle" to help restore the faces of men injured during WWI.
The Ringling Brothers tent that was in place - on the 6th of July, 1944 - was new. Its canvas top had been specially treated, to make it waterproof, ...
My story is about the Hawaiian Overthrow in Hawaii and how the throne was taken away from Queen Liliuokalani (the first and last queen of Hawaii). It ...
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