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There’s nothing in human DNA that makes the 40-hour workweek a biological necessity. In fact, for mu
Before 9/11, before Pearl Harbor, another unsuspected foreign attack on the United States shocked th
At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as
The influence of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates has been profound. Even today, over two thou
A millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. So, when Eur
War, Conflict, Victory & Defeat. These are all aspects of life that some may have to face. This
In an obscure village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now to
In mid-nineteenth century New England, Robert Armstrong was a young man with the world at his feet.
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The Allied Intervention into the Russian Civil War remains one of the most ambitious yet least talke
At the turn of the nineteenth century, two waves of revolutions swept the Atlantic world, disrupting
Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just over th
On January 30, 1918, a young man “with the appearance of a well-educated, debonair foreigner” arrive
The last months of World War II on the Eastern Front saw a ferocious fight between two very differen
Have you ever wondered if there was a group to reach North America before Christopher Columbus? Find
The Iliad is the world’s greatest epic poem—heroic battle and divine fate set against the Trojan War
On July 9, 1860, a violent mob swept through the Christian quarters of Damascus. For eight days, vio
