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Inside Stalin’s Plan to Hide Nuclear Subs Beneath Moscow

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (135+ words) In 1953 Moscow, Joseph Stalin grows increasingly concerned about America's expanding nuclear arsenal, pushing to conceal a fleet of submarines worth billions inside a secret, nuclear-proof underground stronghold with a hidden gate. From Renaissance-era predictors like Nostradamus, who wrote of the…...

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history.com > this-day-in-history > april-6 > post-it-notes-debut

Post-It Notes first sold

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (880+ words) On April 6, 1980, 3M begins sales of Post-it Notes. The canary yellow sticky pads quickly become one of the best-selling office supply products in history and a ubiquitous staple in schools and offices around the world. "Necessity is the mother of invention....

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history.com > articles > christiana-resistance-fugitive-slave-act

The Violent Showdown That Challenged the Fugitive Slave Act

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1023+ words) By: Nadra Kareem Nittle Black and white residents of a Pennsylvania village resisted slave catchers in a violent showdown in 1851. People escaping enslavement flee from Maryland to Delaware by way of the Underground Railroad, 1850-1851. On September 11, 1851, a violent clash between…...

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history.com > this-day-in-history > march-27 > hot-pockets-microwave-sandwiches-trademarked

Hot Pockets trademarked

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1314+ words) All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world's major wars. From prehistory, though antiquity and into the 21st century, all of history's biggest…...

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history.com > articles > dantes-inferno-hell-people-alighieri-politics

How Dante’s Inferno Was a Fiery Act of Political Payback

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (828+ words) All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world's major wars. From prehistory, though antiquity and into the 21st century, all of history's biggest…...

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history.com > videos > the-spirit-that-built-america-eleanor-abbott-invents-candyland

Eleanor Abbott Invents Candy Land

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (176+ words) All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world's major wars. From prehistory, though antiquity and into the 21st century, all of history's biggest…...

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history.com > articles > socrates-trial-death-hemlock

Why Was Socrates Sentenced to Death?

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history.com > articles > underground-tunnels-inca-cusco-chincana

The Hidden Labyrinth Beneath the Inca Capital

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history.com > articles > biggest-empires

What Were the Biggest Empires in History?

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (484+ words) All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world's major wars. From prehistory, though antiquity and into the 21st century, all of history's biggest…...

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history.com > articles > st-patrick-snakes

Did St. Patrick Really Drive the Snakes Out of Ireland?

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (412+ words) All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. History from countries and communities across the globe, including the world's major wars. From prehistory, though antiquity and into the 21st century, all of history's biggest…...