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Earliest recorded use of zero is centuries older than first thought
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7 years ago
The concept and associated value of the mathematical symbol ‘zero’ is used the world over as a fundamental numerical pillar. However, its origin has until now been one of the field’s greatest...
Air blast injuries killed the crew of the submarine H.L. Hunley
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Abstract The submarine H . L . Hunley was the first submarine to sink an enemy ship during combat; however, the cause of its sinking has been a mystery for over 150 years. The Hunley...
Actual footage (with Narration) - 1935: "Worst & Wildest flood Houston had ever had"
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7 years ago
Photo: J.R. Gonzales -->>> LINK TO VIDEO & NARRATION IMAGE 1 OF 22 Looking east over downtown, December 1935. White building at foreground is the criminal...
A black man went undercover online as a white supremacist. This is what he learned.
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7 years ago
Source As soon as Theo Wilson started making YouTube videos about culture and race, trolls using racial slurs started flocking to his page. After engaging in endless sparring matches in...
SO A NAZI WALKS INTO AN IRON BAR: THE MEYER LANSKY STORY
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“The Nazi scumbags were meeting one night on the second floor. Nat Arno and I went upstairs and threw stink bombs into the room where the creeps were. As they came out of the room, running from...
Spanish Thrives in the U.S. Despite an English-Only Drive
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7 years ago
Wander into El Super, a sprawling grocery store in the same valley where fortune seekers on horseback laid claim nearly four centuries ago to one of Spain’s most remote possessions, and the...
The True Story of the Short-Lived State of Franklin
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Several counties in what is today Tennessee tried to form their own independent state. The original name proposed had been “Frankland,” but the counties changed it to Franklin in an...
Wreckage Of USS Indianapolis, Sunk By Japanese In WWII, Found In Pacific
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For 72 years since the cruiser USS Indianapolis sank after being struck by Japanese torpedoes in the waning days of World War II, her exact resting place had been a mystery. But a team of...
The Pernicious Myth of the ‘Loyal Slave’ Lives on in Confederate Memorials
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7 years ago
Statues don’t need to venerate military leaders of the Civil War to promulgate false narratives Looking at the east frieze of the Confederate Monument at Arlington National Cemetery in...
June 22nd 1938 Yankee Stadium A Black American Destroys the Aryan Myth of Hitler
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The air crackled with excitement, nothing like this had taken place before. 66,000 screaming fans with the first $100 ringside tickets were about to see history. Joe Louis a black American was...
When Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, an Author Rewrote History
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7 years ago
Fawn Weaver on a farm in Lynchburg, Tenn., where Nearest Green and Jack Daniel first began distilling whiskey together. Nathan Morgan for The New York Times Fawn Weaver was on vacation...
This Newly Excavated Underground Tunnel Reveals How 83 German Officers Escaped a World War II Prison Camp
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The POWs burrowed to freedom from a Welsh encampment in 1945 Plotting a route out? German prisoners in Britain during WWII Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographe It only...
The Wealthy Activist Who Helped Turn “Bleeding Kansas” Free
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7 years ago
Newly minted abolitionist Amos Adams Lawrence funneled much of his fortune into a battle he thought America couldn’t afford to lose A print from Harper’s showing Quantrill’s raid on...
The “Quaker Comet” Was the Greatest Abolitionist You’ve Never Heard Of
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Benjamin Lay said he was “illiterate,” but his antislavery arguments were erudite. This portrait, commissioned by Lay’s friend Benjamin Franklin, shows him with a book. Benjamin Lay by...
The Greensboro Massacre 1979 The KKK Deadly Shootout -- KKK, American Nazi Party Square off Against CWP
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7 years ago
The Greensboro Massacre: North Carolina’s Deadly KKK Shootout Matt Gilligan Medium History Murders And Crime Society & Laws Weird On...
Guam Today and Guam July 21st, 1944 - The Second Battle of Guam
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7 years ago
Most American's know little about Guam or it's people. With North Korean threatening to attack Guam it once again is in the news. The people of Guam are called Chamorros, native Indians of the...
An Alternative History of Singapore, Through a Comic Book
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7 years ago
The graphic artist Sonny Liew in his studio in Singapore, which is decorated with his drawings and cutouts of his characters. He has written an alternative history to the government creation...
Reviving the original meaning of "demoralize."
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7 years ago
Here's something in the "Suggestions" section of James Damore's suddenly famous memo : De-moralize diversity . As soon as we start to moralize an issue, we stop thinking about it in terms of...
Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion Against Christian Missionaries
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7 years ago
Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion, 1805 by Red Jacket The Senecas, members of the Iroquois Confederacy, fought on the side of the British in the American Revolution. Red Jacket, also...
The 'Two-Spirit' People of Indigenous North Americans
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7 years ago
The is an article written by Walter L. Williams and explains the cultural differences between Native Americans and Anglo-Americans when it comes to the understanding of male and female. In some...