History Shorts

Sure, it would likely have made more sense to name the two continents Columbia after Christopher Columbus, or for the Native Americans who had been here for centuries before, or even for the Vikings who beat the explorer by hundreds of years. But no. America is named after an Italian explorer named Amerigo Vespucci.

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Nostradamus was a sixteenth-century French astrologer, physician, and reputed seer best known for his book Les Propheties, or the Prophecies, a collection of 942 poetic quatrains that allegedly predict future events. So, truth or fiction? Well, that depends.

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Forever known as Snoopy's arch nemesis, the Red Baron, or Manfred von Richthofen was renowned for his exceptional skills in aerial combat. But did you know that to this day, nobody can really agree on who killed the Red Baron?

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So, how much do you know about Ancient History? You may surprise yourself.

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When American U-2 spy planes captured aerial photographs of the missile sites in Cuba, the world held its breath as two superpowers engaged in tense negotiations and military preparations. But WHAT IF those negotiations broke down?

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The New York Times Bestselling author Jeff Shaara is a literary giant whose historical novels have brought history to life for millions of people over the past few decades.

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The diamond industry has thrived for centuries with the shiny rocks acting as status symbols for those who can afford them. But, there is one famous diamond in history, considered one of the world's most beautiful of all - yet one which some say causes death and suffering to those who possess it. Is the Hope Diamond really cursed? No… but then again… maybe.

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While the Crusades' quest to recover and hold the Holy Land saw the rise of several influential military orders, the Knights Templar is, by far, the most known. In fact, they had become so powerful and feared that both monarchies and the Knights' very supporters turned toward hunting them down.

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Behind New York City's skyline lies the story of fearless Mohawk Indians once hired by the Dominion Bridge Company as ironworkers a century earlier.

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On the morning of June 30, 1908, a powerful explosion ripped through the remote Siberian wilderness near the Tunguska River. That much we know, but what created the explosion 1,000 times greater than the atomic bomb at Hiroshima that destroyed 80 million trees but left no hole in the ground is still a mystery.

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