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In the summer of 1944, Allied forces fought a vicious battle with the Japanese on the island of Saipan.
Matthew Paris, who died in 1259, created this illumination depicting Saladin and Guy de Lusignan fighting over a relic known as the "Sacred Cross" dur...
While "witch hunts" frequently took place in parts of Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries - resulting in the deaths of up to 50,000 people - th...
After Tituba—accused of being a witch in 1692—testified that she saw the names of other people in the “Devil’s book,” th...
Samuel Clemens first used his pen name, Mark Twain, while working for Territorial Enterprise, a newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada.
This image depicts Sam, a monkey who traveled to space during an American space launch.
Samuel A. Mudd was a young doctor with several children when he met John Wilkes Booth in the fall of 1864.
On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message?
If General Santa Anna ordered a bugle to sound the signal "No Quarter," what did the Alamo defenders hear?
On January 28, 1969, a blowout occurred at an oil-rig platform just off the Santa Barbara coast. The disaster had one good outcome - it is credited wi...
This map shows how the SARS virus spread and provides a brief description of its early days.
For nearly 50 years, scientists around the world have been thinking about, and searching for, a sub-atomic particle called the "Higgs Boson."Peter Hig...
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