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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…...
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....
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…...
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…...
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…...
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…...
Why Was Socrates Sentenced to Death?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (712+ 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…...
The Hidden Labyrinth Beneath the Inca Capital
2+ week, 3+ day ago (312+ 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…...
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…...
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…...