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This paper addresses the questions like "Is Card Counting Legal?" that pertain to the legality of advantage gambling.
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Published: May 13, 2008
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The names Phan Dinh Phung and Phan Boi Chau may not be familiar to many outside Vietnam, but the movements they led helped influence the history of Vietnam.
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Published: Feb 16, 2008
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The Chateau de Versailles might have never been built, however, if it had not been for a grave mistake on the part of Nicholas Fouguet...
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Published: Feb 13, 2008
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One of the most bizarre examples of speculative activities in the pre-Industrial world occurred in the Netherlands in 1636 when a tulip craze struck the Dutch.
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Published: Feb 13, 2008
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Without the efforts of two actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, world might have simply forgotten the genius of William Shakespeare's plays...
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Published: Feb 13, 2008
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Pope Clement VIII did much to change popular opinion about coffee in Europe when he tried it and found it "delicious"...
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Published: Feb 05, 2008
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Our multi-billion dollar cigarette industry (and its effect on the general health) is the responsibility of early English settlers to Roanoke Island...
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Published: Feb 05, 2008
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It was in Russia, not the United States, that John Paul Jones was promoted to Rear Admiral. The Russians esteemed him more than his contemporary Americans...
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Published: Feb 04, 2008
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Pope Gregory XIII reformed the old Julian calendar and gave the world a new, more accurate way of reckoning dates that is still used today.
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Published: Feb 04, 2008
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have revisionist historians like Washington Irving to thank for the common misconception that Columbus was a light in the darkness of Medieval superstition...
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Published: Feb 04, 2008
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Like soccer, golf was highly discouraged by many Scottish kings because of fear that the game's popularity was endangering the security of the kingdom!..
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Published: Feb 04, 2008
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Many people do not realize is that Lief Erikkson was not actually the first European to discover the New World. That honor goes to Bjarni Herjolfsson...
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Published: Feb 04, 2008
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Attila the Hun has become infamous in history as the bloodthirsty leader of the Hunnic Empire. He did not die a warriors death, however. He died of a nosebleed...
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Published: Feb 04, 2008
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Venice was founded on 118 islands not so tourists could enjoy its beauty, but so that its inhabitants could be safe from the marauding tribes on the mainland...
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Published: Feb 04, 2008
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History remembers the names of few of those who were kidnapped in Britain by the Irish Celts, except for Patricius. Today, he is known as Saint Patrick...
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Published: Feb 01, 2008
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Although it was not perfect, the Julian Calendar introduced in 46BC was a marked improvement over the calendars which had come before it...
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Published: Feb 01, 2008
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The Austrian success in the siege of Vienna in 1683 not only saved Western Civilization as we know it, but gave us the croissant.
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Published: Feb 01, 2008
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Thanks to Nazi hunters like Simon Wiesenthal, former Nazis were being brought to justice for their crimes as late as the 1990s...
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Published: Feb 01, 2008
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Although Michael Nesmith is best known as a member of The Monkees, he would have had some minor fame if he had never learned to sing or play an instrument...
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Published: Jan 28, 2008
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While few people remember Spencer Silver's name, he held over twenty patents and was largely responsible for the invention of the Post-It Note...
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Published: Jan 28, 2008
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This article examines some of the questions that scholars have about the Trojan War between Troy and the Greek city states...
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Published: Jan 25, 2008
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One of the most memorable conflicts in Germany during the Cold War was the Berlin Blockade and the subsequent Berlin Airlift...
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Published: Jan 25, 2008
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Are the deaths of seven American Presidents from Harrison to Kennedy the work of a curse placed upon the Great White Father by Tecumseh?
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Published: Jan 23, 2008
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There exist a number of misconceptions about World War I. This article discusses seven some of the most common as well as the truth about them...
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Published: Jan 23, 2008
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The Cantonese prostitute turned pirate Ching Shih commanded 17,000 men and several hundred vessels at the height of her power in 1810...
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Published: Jan 23, 2008
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The United States might have been settled quite differently if the Pilgrims had managed to settle where they had originally intended...
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Published: Jan 23, 2008
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While nothing was inevitable about Hitler's rise to power in Nazi Germany, it required that he fail at the one thing he had wanted his whole life. To be an artist...
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Published: Jan 23, 2008
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The Palestinian Liberation Organization's massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics was the catalyst for Operation Wrath of God...
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Published: Jan 23, 2008
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This article will compare and contrast feudal Japan with feudal Europe while offering some explanations for the differences.
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Published: Jan 23, 2008
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One of the most prominent features of Confucianism is the belief in the importance of the family and in the hierarchy of the family..
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Published: Jan 23, 2008
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The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson is based upon the real events of the siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War...
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Published: Jan 23, 2008
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Over one hundred years before Hurricane Katrina broke the levies in New Orleans, a hurricane destroyed the city of Galveston, Texas...
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Published: Jan 21, 2008
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Since the free market will invariably fill any kind of demand, it is not surprising that there now exist online brokers who sell titles of nobility...
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Published: Jan 16, 2008
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To help combat short term economic problems, the French monarchy devised a scheme whereby it would sell the right to collect taxes to private investors...
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Published: Jan 16, 2008
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In England speech is one of the most important ways of determining social class, even more important than wealth or education in the eyes of money...
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Published: Jan 16, 2008
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Even after it became clear that there would be no quick victory in the Civil War, it was not a foregone conclusion that the Union would prevail over the Confederacy...
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Published: Jan 14, 2008
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Until 1900, few countries besides China prohibited drugs like opium. Until that time, they were used by many in mainstream society...
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Published: Jan 14, 2008
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Until it was banned in many countries by Prohibition Movements in the early 20th century, absinthe was an extremely popular alcoholic drink among artists and writers...
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Published: Jan 14, 2008
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The horrors these slaves faced during this Middle Passage of the Atlantic Slave Trade are difficult for the modern mind to comprehend...
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Published: Jan 14, 2008
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Although the Articles of Confederation provided for a central government, that central government was extremely weak and ineffectual...
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Published: Jan 14, 2008
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Although his mission was not successful, Nathan Hale has been widely regarded as an American hero for being the first spy in American history...
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Published: Jan 14, 2008
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Lydia Darrah was an American Quaker woman living in Philadelphia during the American Revolutionary War who spied on the British for the Americans.
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Published: Jan 14, 2008
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On Christmas Day, 1776, General George Washington crossed the ice waters of the Delaware in a move he hoped would turn the war effort around. It did...
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Published: Jan 10, 2008
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President William Henry Harrison died after only 30 days in office. His death, which was the first for American President created a Constitutional crisis...
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Published: Jan 08, 2008
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Although the Mafia may do business with non-members on occasion, only made men can rise the ranks of the Mafia hierarchy...
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Published: Jan 08, 2008
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There is a popular story which says that Marco Polo brought pasta back to Italy after traveling to China. Is there any truth to this claim?
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Published: Jan 08, 2008
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On July 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa, the former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, disappeared from the Machus Red Fox Restaurant...
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Published: Jan 08, 2008
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Probably the best example of the dangerous of an army preparing for the last war without giving thought to the future comes from World War II...
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Published: Jan 08, 2008
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When Leonard George Casley had a problem with the government of Western Australia, he started his own country and declared himself its monarch.
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Published: Jan 08, 2008
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Some say that David Rice Atchison was President for a Day on March 4, 1849. Should he be considered the "real" 12th President of the United States?
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Published: Jan 08, 2008
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Should John Hanson be considered the first President of the United States instead of General George Washington? Some say yes...
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Published: Jan 07, 2008
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Few people had as much influence on the spiritual development of the United States as Jonathan Edwards who was largely responsible for the First Great Awakening.
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Published: Jan 07, 2008
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One of the most obvious signs of the corruption of the Catholic Church in the 15th and 16th centuries was the Indulgence Controversy...
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Published: Jan 07, 2008
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Like the Jews, the Anabaptists were persecuted for their faith by both Catholics and Protestants in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Published: Jan 07, 2008
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By the 14th century, a group called the Brethren of the Common Life had devoted itself to preaching and teaching a moderately reformist theology...
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Published: Jan 07, 2008
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We can never know for sure, but many believe that Jack Ruby shot Oswald to prevent Oswald from testifying about his involvement in a mafia conspiracy.
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Published: Jan 07, 2008
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Relatively speaking, the conquest of the once mighty Aztec Empire in Mexico by the Spanish did not take very long. It began in early 1519 and ended in late 1521...
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Published: Jan 07, 2008
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Since 1969, Tumbleweed Smith of Big Spring, Texas has been producing a radio program called "The Sounds of Texas." He just finished his 10,000th show.
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Published: Jan 07, 2008
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The character of Count Dracula is actually based on a historic figure - Vlad Dracula who lived in the Romanian province of Wallachia in the 15th century.
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Published: Jan 04, 2008
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John Stith Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola, never dreamed that his temperance beverage would prove as popular as it has.
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Published: Jan 04, 2008
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In 1858, the completion of an underwater Transatlantic Cable allowed messages sent in Morse Code to be sent across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Published: Jan 04, 2008
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Mass movements like Communism and Fascism were responsible for much of the suffering in the twentieth century. Why do people turn to these radical ideologies?
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Published: Jan 04, 2008
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Because the British had few goods in which the Chinese were interested, they turned to foreign markets for goods to help them in their trade with China....
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Published: Jan 04, 2008
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We all know that John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln shortly after the end of the Civil War, but did you know that Booth saved Lincoln's life during the war?
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Published: Jan 03, 2008
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Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln, was witness to three Presidential Assassinations.
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Published: Jan 03, 2008
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Many Nazis used their positions to enrich themselves and expand their own political power at the expense of the Third Reich....
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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For most of his life, including some of the time that he was Chancellor of Germany, Hitler practiced an amazingly indolent lifestyle...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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Steve Flaig got an unexpected Christmas gift in 2007. He got to meet his biological mother. It is something that not all adopted children get to do...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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The Murder Incorporated Organization was one of the most ruthless criminal organizations of the 1930s and 1940s and was responsible for many assassinations...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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One of the most common types of investment fraud is the "Ponzi Scheme" named after Charles Ponzi who conned thousands of people in the 1920s...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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Although they have been identified as scams for a long time, pyramid schemes are still around and attract thousands of investors every year...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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Before you send your hard earned money to a "data entry" or "online marketing" program, read this article which reveals how these programs work...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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The Hope Diamond is the most famous jewel in the world and is currently on display at the Smithsonian. For years, however, it cursed its private owners...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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It took more than 60 years for America to honor its veterans of World War Two with a memorial in Washington DC, but it has finally happened...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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The must famous gunfight in the history of the West occurred on October 26, 1881 in a vacant lot behind the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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One of the most daring bombing missions of World War Two was the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo near the beginning of the war in the Pacific...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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The Mafia organization is the product of Salvatore Maranzano's defeat of a rival faction in the Castellammarese War during the early 1930s in New York City.
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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The economic hardships that Germany faced after World War One led to some of the worst hyperinflation in history...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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The Soviet Union illustrated the problems associated with trying to plan an economy and why those problems are so hard to overcome...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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During the Middle Ages, four separate and distinct castes emerged from the social institution of Feudalism...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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On October 31st, 1517, Matin Luther posted his 95 Theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, initiating the Protestant Reformation...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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Between 1920 and 1933, the sale, manufacture, and distribution of alcohol was made illegal in the United States. This Prohibition has some unintended consequences...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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According to Karl Marx, the evil of capitalism is not the competition it fosters or its supposed lack of concern for the poor, but the surplus labor value it creates...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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Project Gutenberg is the biggest project for increasing global access to great literature since the invention of the printing press...
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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The way Europeans colonized Africa was different from the way the British colonized India. What accounts for this difference?
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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Older people generally perform less well on intelligence tests than younger people, but why? Do people become less intelligence as they age?
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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There has been some criticism to the way we measure IQ. Some claim that IQ tests are not a valid measure of intelligence.
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Published: Jan 02, 2008
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There are several reasons that people have voiced criticism to the Vietnam War Memorial in the past...
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Published: Jan 01, 2008
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95% of the people in the world live in countries with the metric system. Here are some reasons the United States should become one of those countries...
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Published: Jan 01, 2008
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Although work on the Washington Monument began in 1833, it was not completed for over 55 years because of design problems and funding problems.
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Published: Dec 31, 2007
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Not everyone was satisfied with free market capitalism during the industrial revolution and many looked to socialism and nationalism for something different.
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Published: Dec 31, 2007
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After Vice President Aaron Burr shot and killed the Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Burr's political career was finished...
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Published: Dec 31, 2007
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It seems that there are never enough hours in the day, but there are several ways that you can make yourself much more productive...
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Published: Dec 24, 2007
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iWeb is a great program that allows anyone with little or no experience in web design to develop great looking websites on the Mac computer...
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Published: Dec 24, 2007
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There were many places in the ancient world were women enjoyed more rights than they did in Athens...
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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Are Creationism and the Big Bang necessarily at odds with each other or can they be reconciled?
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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Although Civil War soldiers suffered from modern weapons like the repeater riffle, they did not have access to modern medical care...
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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In March of 1918, the Germans started using a massive cannon called the "Paris Gun" to shell Paris from over 80 miles away...
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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If you are not satisfied with Adsense or cannot use it for whatever reason, there are some alternatives that you may want to consider. Here are three...
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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There are significant pros and cons to working in the financial services industry that you need to think about before you accept a position...
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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By the time Levi Strauss died in 1902, he had made a significant contribution to American fashion and the American garment industry...
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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Billy Sunday (1862 - 1935) has a unique place in American history. After an eight year career in the early major leagues, Sunday became a popular preacher...
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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Just about anyone can make extra money every month by writing for Review Stream, even those who have little or no experience in writing.
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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We know a great deal about the trial and death of the Athenian philosopher Socrates through the writings of his most famous student, Plato...
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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If you are thinking about working in a job where you receive a commission on what you sell, here are some things to think about...
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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Although you will not read about in China, the government killed hundreds of protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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For a brief period in the 15th century, the Catholic church had three men who all claimed to be the legitimate popes of the church.
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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The German Navy was both partially responsible for World War I and partially responsible for losing it for the Germans
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Published: Dec 21, 2007
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There are at least five reasons why being self employed is better than working for a regular company, no matter how great your boss may be.
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