The bottle of orange juice costs $5 at ShopRite, but Tayeb Souami’s wife found the same bottle of the same brand for $2.50 elsewhere. Yes, it was only a $2.50 difference, but that amount was important for a family that had just refinanced their home and was supporting a daughter who was preparing to go …
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At the right hand of Martin Luther King was an uncomfortable genius whose legacy has been silenced. History keeps this kind of uncomfortable people in a loft. Barack Obama awarded him a medal, but the rise of Donald Trump and racial tension has wiped him off the map. I refer to Bayard Rustin, promoter of the March on Washington in 1963: …
Michael McCormick, a Harvard history professor, has studied 20 centuries of catastrophes on the old continent and concluded that 536 “was the beginning of one of the worst periods, if not the worst,” to be alive. While humankind has suffered horrific periods such as 1349, when the Black Death struck; 1952, when smallpox killed millions …
If you enjoy traveling the world, you’ve probably heard of the Great Wall of China, but how much do you know about its history? The only data we have about it is that it is enormous and that it is located in China. However, a structure of such magnitude must have much more to tell …
One hundred years ago, on May 3, 1921, the British Parliament passed a law that made Ireland split in two. This law was put into effect. The Government of Ireland Act 1920 split the country into two parts: Northern and Southern Ireland. Things didn’t go as planned with the act. Thirty-six of the island’s 32 …
Alaska was transferred from the Russian Empire’s ownership and jurisdiction to the United States of America in late 1867. It was sold for a total of 7.2 million dollars, and for most people, it is but a footnote in history. Why did Russia decide to sell its overseas colony is a topic that should be …
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The royal family isn’t the only group of people who have regrets about their marriage. He was with Diana for a long time. Do you think Prince Charles has any regrets about what happened at the time? The beginning According to a timeline compiled by Vogue, the press was immediately fascinated with Prince Charles and …
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The Italian was raised in a household full of medicines and apothecaries, which prompted her to invent the poisonous water known as tofana, which even Mozart suspected he had consumed. Giulia Tofana | Photo: Medium Backstory: Having grown up in an apothecary-filled neighborhood, Giulia Tofana had no idea her legacy would endure till the …
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