Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened
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One hundred years on, the scars from World War I linger on Australia's streets and in our psyche.
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At 63, I threw away my prized portrait of Robert E. Lee
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Time Traveller by Merriam-Webster—Find out when a word was first used in print
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The oldest true stories in the world
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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
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Germany's plans to win WWI
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A very brief history of the Manx language
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Cleopatra and the Siege of Alexandria (48 to 47 B.C.E.)
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A band of Polish mathematicians figured out much about how German Enigma encoding machines operated, years before Alan Turing did
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WW2 Eastern Front animated: 1942
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How the English language became such a mess
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After a year of rising tensions, protesters tear down Confederate statue on UNC campus
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Ottawa to declare federal holiday to mark legacy of residential school system
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Since the 1960s, dictionaries have cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing.
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The rise of Rome - How Italy was conquered
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The fall of Pompey (48 B.C.E.)
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Earliest version of our alphabet possibly discovered
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Hiroshima - a 1946 piece exploring how six survivors experienced the atomic bombing and its aftermath
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The fallen of World War II
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Three myths most Americans believe (Japanese surrender in WW2, Cold War, nuclear bomb threat)
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The American Revolution’s greatest leader was openly gay
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Bear necessities: The big brown bear who helped Polish troops in WWII
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The last slave ship survivor gave an interview in the 1930s. It just surfaced in the form of a new book
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The Battle of Ilerda (49 B.C.E.)
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