It is frequently said that “love makes the world go round.” Unlike most Hallmark greeting card aphorisms, this one is surprisingly accurate.…
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Both the Union and the Confederacy enlisted child soldiers during the bloody US Civil War that lasted from April 12, 1861, to…
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The Victorians were a clever lot. They gave us steam trains, stamps, photographs, and the first public flushing toilet. But they were…
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On August 15, 1945, the Japanese people heard the voice of Emperor Hirohito for the first time. Through a recorded message over…
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Game of Thrones is clearly inspired by the jostling of power that has happened in the British Isles for thousands of years—with…
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The United States wasn’t the only untamed frontier. Just to the north was another Wild West: the vast, cold, unsettled lands of…
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All of us have made a small mistake at one time or another, and most of the time it doesn’t turn into…
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We’ve all heard of the American Civil War and the French Revolution. The Cold War and Cuba are old hat by now,…
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The idea of discovering a buried treasure is appealing to just about everyone. Who wouldn’t want to just dig down somewhere and…
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World War II is the largest-scale war in history, at least in any modern sense, and has filled our imaginations to the…