US History
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No matter how you twist or turn it, when you are complicit to a crime, you are just as guilty as the perpetrator, and perhaps even more guilty because you were an enabler of that crime. Hermann Stieve was Director of the Berlin Institute of Anatomy from 1935 to 1952, which was from the early
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In the great annals of American history, there are certain dates that echo across the decades: July 4, 1776; December 7, 1941; July 20, 1969. And then, of course, January 26, 1998 — the day President Bill Clinton stood before the nation, wagged his finger at the camera, and gave us the immortal line: “I
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On the night of August 7, 1930, the small city of Marion, Indiana became the site of one of the most infamous and haunting episodes of racial violence in American history—the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. What makes this event particularly searing in the American consciousness isn’t just the brutality of the act.
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On March 10, 1865, just weeks before the final collapse of the Confederacy, a slave named Amy Span was hanged on a sycamore tree before the courthouse of Darlingon, S.C., for anticipating her liberty a little too exuberantly. Amy Spain’s slave master was Major Albertus C. Spain, a Mexican-American War veteran who owned a large
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It was billed as a contest for the heavyweight championship of the world. And yet, by noon on Dec. 2, 1896, with the fight slated to take place that same evening in San Francisco’s Mechanics’ Pavilion, they had the boxers, they had the venue but they didn’t have a referee. It was the problem promoters
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On this day, July 5, 1937, Hormel Foods Corporation, headquartered in Austin, Minnesota, USA, first introduced the product SPAM, a square can of pork, salt, water, sugar, potato starch, and sodium nitrite that rolled off the assembly lines 82 years ago during the late Depression era. Hormel created SPAM to capitalize on the previously unprofitable pork
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To be honest the ‘global’ in the title might be a slight exaggeration but it was a freaky weather event nonetheless in fact the freakiest weather event. Imagine bundling up to get the newspaper on an early morning at 7:30 a.m. with the temperature at a frigid -4 degrees.(−20°C). Just two minutes later as you
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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, famously known as Bonnie and Clyde, were among the most infamous criminal couples in American history. Their lives of crime during the Great Depression captured the imagination of the public, yet their story ended in a dramatic and violent ambush that marked one of the most famous manhunts in U.S.
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On April 19, 1782, John Adams was received by the States-General and the Dutch Republic as they were the first country, together with Morocco and France, to recognize the United States as an independent government. John Adams then became the first U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands and the house that he had purchased at Fluwelen
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The night of April 14, 1865, marked one of the darkest moments in American history—the culmination of a calculated conspiracy that aimed to decapitate the leadership of the United States government during the final days of the Civil War. While President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination at Ford’s Theatre is the most remembered event from that night,
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