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The U.K. Admits the American Revolutionaries Were Right
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Why Conquer?
A friend recently asked an interesting question: In history, why does someone who already has...
The Ugly Duchess
The Ugly Duchess isn't a post-modern surrealist painting. Nor is it a cover from Mad Magazine or...
European Antisemitism Isn’t Back
Islamist attacks on Jews have triggered repeated warnings about the return of antisemitism to...
History of the Fortune Cookie
The first record of fortune cookies comes from Japan in the early 1800's, not from China,...
Dracula’s Dungeon Found?
Cool: CNN video.
Did Hobbits Live among Us Recently?
The Indonesian island of Flores and its neighbors host two unusual languages, called Ke'o and...
Britain Does Something Noble
In 1807, the British Parliament outlawed the slave trade. Then the government did something truly...
Why the U.S. Has No Name
Today, the United States is a country, a nation, and we tend to think it has been since its birth....
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