13 Original Colonies: A Beginner's Guide to Colonial America
The 13 original colonies of the United States were the foundation of what would become a new nation, born from a blend of ambition, conflict and compromise. These colonies stretched along the Atlantic ...
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First Map of Known World Created by Ancient Greek Anaximander
The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.
Did the Pilgrims eat turkey at the 1st Thanksgiving?
According to the University of Texas A&M, pilgrims at their first thanksgiving did not eat turkey. Historians say that the ...
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Which Turkey Came First: the Bird or the Country?
And is it named after Turkey the nation, or was the country named after the fowl? I talked to a language historian to find ...
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Fascinating facts about flags
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Why the US celebrates Veterans Day and how the holiday has changed over time
President Joe Biden has laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery to mark Veterans Day. Thousands marched through the ...
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The Boundaries of Twenty-first-Century Policing
In Elmont, the glass doors leading into the police academy bear an inscription that reads, in part: “[T]he police at all times should maintain a relationship ... into the state of contemporary ...