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Bringing Down the Knights Templar
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 …
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Mohawk Skywalkers
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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The Tunguska Event
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 w…
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Trivia: Cold War
Are you ready to test your Cold War knowledge?
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What If: League of Nations
What IF America had joined the League of Nations instead of Congress failing to ratify the Treaty of Versailles? Would World War II had been prevente…
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Conversations: The power of art in the historical narrative, w/ Sabin Howard
Mr. Sabin Howard is one of the greatest artists of his generation, a classical-figurative master sculptor who has spent the last few years of his lif…
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Lost City of Angkor
For hundreds of years, rumors of the lost city of Angkor spread among Cambodian peasants. Then, on a hot day in 1860, Henri Mahout and his porters di…
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Ghosts of a Murdered Dynasty
The fate of Tsar Nicholas II and his family during the Russian Revolution is a tragic and pivotal event in Russian history, and despite all that we k…
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Lolita Shocks the World
Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita is now considered one of the greatest works of American literature of the 20th century. But, at the time of its …
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Van Gogh's Ear
Did you know that the famed painter Vincent Van Gogh led a life marked by poverty, mental illness, and relative obscurity? And, at one point, in a ma…
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