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When a commoner named Liu Bang became the first emperor of the Han Dynasty in 206 B.C., it was the ...
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Taken hostage by an angry, starving Sioux tribe who slaughtered her family, Abbie Gardner stayed alive, and later made a ...
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The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is an annual competition for the brainiest of high-school maths whizzes in the world. This ...
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In The Second Sex (1949), Simone de Beauvoir argued that women were at a disadvantage in a society where they ...
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"Sketch Book of the War" considered one of the 19th century's most important photographic works ...
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The U.S. Navy has confirmed that three F-18 gun-camera videos first released by The New York Times and a UFO ...
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Every summer, Queen Elizabeth I and her massive court set out on a months’ long progress, with a mile-long train ...
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In the dimly lit log cabin of the Widow Glenn, the military map was spread. Worried Union officers of the ...
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Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation edited by Richard C. Lukas; University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2004, $29.95 ...
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