How William Tecumseh Sherman Helped Ignite The California Gold Rush
Civil War leader William Tecumseh Sherman was instrumental in starting the California Gold Rush.
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What Anna Maria Lane Accomplished By Pretending To Be A Man
While the Founding Fathers of the United States are important, there are others who accomplished some incredible things but don't make it into history books.
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The Truth About The Assassination Attempt On John D. Rockefeller
Wealthy industrialist John D. Rockefeller created countless enemies during his lifetime, and his family's hard stance on labor issues fueled the ire of many.
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The Truth About The Coca Wine Fad Of The Mid-1800s
Made by steeping the leaves of the coca plant, the coca wine craze swept through Europe in the mid-19th century and was even endorsed by the pope.
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Why A Door Hinge May Be The Reason Neil Armstrong Was The First Man On The Moon
Neil Armstrong, the commander of the mission and whose rank dictated that he should stay inside during a spacewalk, was in the best position to get out first.
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Here's What The Bible Really Says About Depression
While there was no word for it, cases of depression have been reported since the second millennium B.C. and symptoms were often blamed on bad spirits.
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Why Charles Lindbergh Refused To Celebrate Mother's Day
Aviator Charles Lindbergh believed that Mother's Day was a holiday created to boost businesses.
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The Billy The Kid Theory That Could Change Everything
BIlly the Kid was shot by a sheriff in New Mexico in 1881. Or, was he? This is the theory about his life and death that could change everything.
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How A Sunken Ship Led To Ed And Lorraine Warren's Marriage
If you've never heard the names Ed and Lorraine Warren, you're sure to have heard of some of the most famous supernatural cases they've investigated.
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The Twisted Truth About The Dark Lord Of Rome
One of the more notable members of the Borgia clan was fourth generation member Cesare Borgia, the illegitimate second son of Rodrigo Borgia.
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This Is How Many Toes North Pole Explorer Robert Peary Lost
The danger that an explorer faces, particularly those who go to the most inhospitable places on Earth, is the loss of one's body parts to the elements.
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The Surprising Way Teeth Were Once Used As Medicine
Knowledge of the human body and how to treat it is always growing, and now we have access to surgeries and procedures that were just dreams centuries ago.
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The Reason New England Once Banned Christmas
The founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who left England because of persecution, thought little of Christmas and opened their shops on December 25.
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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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