The Real Reason Sigmund Freud Hated The United States
Sigmund Freud, pioneer in the then-emerging study of the role the mind plays in one's health, shared his fellow Europeans' love and hatred of the U.S.
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The 9,000-Year-Old Beer Discovered In China
Ah... beer. What could be finer than a pint of cold, frothy beer after a hard day's work? Stroll into a pub, peruse the taps, make your choice, sit and chill.
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Why Mark Twain Couldn't Stand The Post Office
The strangest of all Twain's clashes came not at the expense of a single person but rather of a vast and faceless organization: the United States Post Office.
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Why Ferdinand Magellan Was Considered A Traitor To His Home Country
Ferdinand Magellan approached Portugal's King Manuel repeatedly to ask him to fund a westward voyage to the Spice Islands, to no avail.
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We Could Have Avoided The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Here's How
The BP oil spill was a gargantuan disaster, but it could have been totally avoided if the company had done a better job. Here's what could have happened.
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Why Florida Would Have Never Been A State Without John Quincy Adams
Anyone who has enjoyed the warm, beautiful beaches of Florida owes thanks to John Quincy Adams, as his talks with Spain changed the geography of the U.S.
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The Real Reason Alfred Kinsey Collected Millions Of Wasps
It is almost unthinkable that one person could collect — by hand — seven-and-a-half million of anything without it being the work of a whole lifetime.
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Here Is Why Some Scholars Think God Had A Wife
By "God," researcher Stavrakopoulou means specifically Yahweh, the God of Ancient Israel from whom many modern formulations of the Almighty are derived.
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What The Bible Really Says About Beards
Some of the Bible's teachings about facial hair and head hair are actually rather vague, and in the cases when they're specific.
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Here's What The Bible Really Says About Going To A Psychic
Depending on what Bible you reference, mediums, spiritualists, necromancers, and their ilk are all verboten. Despite that, 1 in 5 Americans have visited one.
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The Real Reason The Segway Was A Failure
The Segway was supposed to change the way we move around cities. Instead, it became the butt of endless jokes and sad ironies. Here's why it was a failure.
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The Oldest Manuscript In The Vatican Archives Might Surprise You
The secretive Vatican Archive is, on the surface at least, a place where the personal records of the pope can be archived and stored.
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The NYC Skyscraper That Almost Demolished Midtown Manhattan
What if we were to tell you that an almost equally bad disaster involving the Citicorp Center building in Midtown Manhattan was averted years earlier?
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Messed Up Things We Learned From The Facebook Whistleblower
In the last few years, social media giant Facebook has been marred with a lot of controversy, and they're not just minuscule conflicts, either.
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The Ten Commandments Explained
The Ten Commandments are fundamental in Judaism and Christianity. Here's what the commandments mean in a modern context.
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Why Johann Sebastian Bach Once Brawled With His Students
Johanne Sebastian Bach got into a physical altercation with one of his students whose bassoon-playing skills he berated.
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How Much Money Does Facebook Lose Every Hour It's Down?
Social media platform Facebook loses millions of dollars every hour it's down and inaccessible to users.
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This Sport Blinded Teddy Roosevelt In One Eye
Captain Meade didn't know he had caused the injury until President Roosevelt revealed it in his autobiography 12 years later. The extent of it was hidden.
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What You Didn't Know About Martin Luther King Jr.'s Love For Star Trek
"Intolerance in the 23rd Century? Improbable!" Gene Roddenberry, the creator of "Star Trek," is quoted as saying in the 1968 book "The Making of Star Trek."
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The Personal Holiday John D. Rockefeller Created
One of the richest men to ever live, and certainly one of the richest Americans to ever live, was John D. Rockefeller, who celebrated his own personal holiday.
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How Many Trips Did Explorer Robert Peary Make To The Arctic?
The 19th century Arctic explorer generally credited with leading the first expedition to reach the North Pole is naval officer Rear Adm. Robert Edwin Peary.
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Rules Every Apostle Had To Follow In The Bible
Per the Bible, Jesus enlisted the certain men first as disciples and then entrusted them to continue teaching his gospel to others.
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The Surprising Number Of Nobel Prizes Won In Marie Curie's Family
Marie Curie and her husband were some of the more noteworthy scientists of the 20th century, particularly for their pioneering work in radiation and chemistry.
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The Real Reason Leonardo Da Vinci Liked To Write In Reverse
Leonardo da Vinci did one thing that has led to the aura of secrecy and mystery surrounding him: He sometimes wrote backward.
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How Woodrow Wilson Surprisingly Got Caught In A Love Triangle
Woodrow Wilson was the governor of New Jersey and the 28th president of the United States, who led the country during World War I.
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Here's What The Bible Really Says About Wearing Jewelry
Some believe that the Bible forbids the wearing of jewelry. And in some passages, this appeared to be true, but the real answer is much more complicated.
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Thomas Jefferson Had A Secret Retreat You May Not Know About
The nation's third president liked to get away from his bustling plantation at Monticello for the quiet of the countryside near Lynchburg, Virginia.
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