The Titanic Survivor Who Refused Amputation And Became A Tennis Champion
Richard “Dick” Norris Williams II has washed off the deck of the HMS Titanic in the early hours of April 15, 1912 –...
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Ronald McNair The Astronaut Who Dreamed Big
Ronald McNair was one of the astronauts that were tragically killed when the Challenger spaceship exploded on Tuesday, J...
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The Islands Of Texel Are Witness To The Only Navy Defeat On Horseback
Texel is an island located in North Holland in the Netherlands, it is the largest island of the West Frisians Islands fo...
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The History Of The Burned House Horizon
During the archaeology of Neolithic Europe, researchers discovered an area of Europe where it appears there was a widesp...
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First Native American In Europe May Have Been Brought Back By The Vikings
More than 1,000 years ago new findings have suggested that the first Native American woman to put her feet on European s...
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California Dam Collapse In 1928 Is One Of The Worst Engineering Disaster Ever In US
St Francis Dam was a huge curved concrete gravity dam that was built in California to regulate and store the reservoirs...
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Belgrade Is Historically The Most Strategically Placed City In The World
Belgrade the capital of Serbia and its largest city, it is located at the crossover between the Sava and Danube rivers a...
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Donald Duck Was An Army Sergeant
During the 1940s and at the start of World War II, Walt Disney Studios was not in a great place. As a business and finan...
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The Most Frauded Election In History
It may be a strange record to hold and not one that shed’s the greatest spirit on humanity or democracy, but it is a rea...
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Ancient Romans Visited South America
The Roman Empire had a sizable naval fleet and regularly spent time exploring the surrounding oceans, not to mention tha...
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