When People Evacuated New York Because Of Orson Welles
October 30, 1938 — The War of the Worlds, the science fiction novel by English author HG Wells telling of a space ship from Mars landing...
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Dr. Jonas Salk And The Cure Of Polio; "Can You Patent The Sun?"
On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a...
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The Soviet pilot's graveyard in Ämari, Estonia is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.
Tucked away in the woods near Estonia’s Ämari Air Base is a pilot’s graveyard where Soviet airmen are buried beneath the fins of the very...
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The Surprising Amount Of People That Have Been Beaten To Death With Bread
According to the World Health Organization, the leading cause of death is heart disease, followed by other medical conditions, which is...
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Mary Surratt, The Lincoln Assassination Conspirator And The First Woman Hanged By The U.S Government
On July 7, 1865, Mary Surratt and three other condemned prisoners were marched through the courtyard of the Old Arsenal Penitentiary...
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When Frank Sinatra Died There Was Drama, Lots Of Drama. Would We Have Expected Anything Less?
In May 1998, Frank Sinatra asked his daughter Tina how far away the new millennium was. According to the biography Sinatra: The Life,...
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This Is Why Mata Hari Was Not the Spy You Thought She Was
Mata Hari was born on this day August 7, 1876 as Margaretha “Gretha” Geertruida Zelle in the Netherlands. Since her conviction as a...
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The Grim History Of Hyde Park's Speakers Corner
October 14, 1855 — A carpenter mounted his soapbox on this day complaining about high food prices – and became the first recorded amateur...
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When Eleanor Roosevelt Changed Human Rights History
On December 10, 1948, just after midnight — the United Nations General Assembly saw its first standing ovation for a single delegate. One...
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The 2009 Burger King "Whopper sacrifice" campaign
Burger King is an American fast-food chain founded in 1953 in Jacksonville, Florida. Back then, it was called Insta-Burger King. When the...
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They Shall Not Pass - The Battle Of Cable Street
Street brawls between fascists on one side and anti-fascists on the other. Although this may sound like something from the news of...
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A Supercut of Buster Keaton’s Less Benign Stunts
Joseph Frank Keaton was born into showbiz. His father was a comedian. His mother, a soubrette. He emerged into the world during a one...
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Charles M Schulz And Peanuts
The short video below melds the educational ease of a YouTube how-to with the self-directed, perhaps more artistically pure aspects of...
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BEHOLD: The Medieval Wound Man
Do you feel faint at the sight of blood? Suffer paper cuts as major trauma? Cover your eyes when the knife comes out in the horror movie?...
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