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Prisoner Exchanges Across the Bridge of Spies, From Powers to Shcharansky Last World War I Veteran Dies at the Age of 110 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Charles Dickens Did Beer Spur the Rise of Agriculture and Politics? Queen Elizabeth Marks 60-Year Reign With Diamond Jubilee Super Bowl Owes Its Name to a Bouncy Ball Groundhog Day: History and Facts Mona Lisa’s Long-Lost Twin Turns Up in Spain Little Ice Age, Big Consequences Horse Domestication Happened Across Eurasia, Study Shows 45 Years Ago: Apollo 1 Mission Ends in Disaster Native Americans Hailed From Siberian Highlands, DNA Reveals Oldest Known Dinosaur Nesting Site Was Also a Nursery A Brief History of Penmanship on National Handwriting Day The Tuskegee Airmen: 5 Fascinating Facts Popcorn Was Popular in Ancient Peru, Discovery Suggests Jack the Ripper ‘Autobiography’ Hits Shelves Drink Some Whiskey, Call in the Morning: Doctors & Prohibition 700-Year-Old William Wallace Letter Finally Reaches Scotland 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Alexander Hamilton Does Primitive Claw Disqualify So-Called ‘Missing Link’ Candidate? Amazing Treasures From Titanic to Be Auctioned: Slideshow 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Joan of Arc Powerful Arms Saved Saber-Toothed Killers’ Fearsome Fangs, Study Shows First Woman to Circle the Globe Honored at Last This Year in History: 2011 New Year’s History: Festive Facts War Animals From Horses to Glowworms: 7 Incredible Facts Curse of 27, or Is It Only Rock ‘n’ Roll? Life and Death of Kim Jong Il: Slideshow Is Marriage History? Facts About the Bill of Rights on Its 220th Anniversary Offerings Discovered at Base of Teotihuacan’s Pyramid of the Sun African Meeting House, Oldest U.S. Black Church, Reopens After Restoration European Unions Throughout History World’s Oldest Known Beds Repelled Bugs First Super Predator Was a Hawk-Eyed Shrimp, Study Shows 5 Facts About Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Do U.S. Presidents Age Faster While in Office? 17th-Century Londoners Died of Fright, Itch and Grief Mayans Never Predicted December 2012 Apocalypse, Researchers Say 10 Spies Who Aren’t Household Names Square Dancing: A Swinging History Is East Asia the Kennel of Dog Civilization? Seeing Sounds, Hearing Colors: Good for Survival? For Perfect Teeth, Start Hunting and Gathering Was Victim of Earliest Known Human-on-Human Attack Saved By Compassion? Louis Daguerre, Photo Pioneer Honored By Google: Interesting Facts A History of White House Attacks The House That J. Edgar Built: FBI Facts An Ancient Greek SoHo? 40 Years Ago: Mars Exploration Milestone Reached 8 Famous Folks You Might Not Know Were Veterans Was Expanding Universe Discoverer Too Humble for Hubble? Cave Painters Didn’t Dream Up Spotted Horses, Study Shows Vietnam in HD Premieres on HISTORY Remembering Marie Curie on Her 144th Birthday Flirting With Dinosaurs Ancient ‘Fast Food’ Window Discovered Unlikely World War II Soldiers Awarded Nation’s Highest Honor Statue of Liberty Turns 125: Video Last of Polish Pilots Who Defended England During Battle of Britain Dies Cannon Loosed from Wreckage of Blackbeard’s Pirate Ship The National WWII Museum Commemorates 70 Years Since Pearl Harbor Astronomers Solve Puzzle of First Supernova on Record 10 Things You Didn’t Know About William Shakespeare Notorious Mothers-in-Law Throughout History Forensics Put a Face to a Stone Age Boy’s Remains Is the Declaration of Independence Illegal? The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi: Slideshow Viking Chief Buried in His Boat Found in Scotland Did Jamestown’s Settlers Drink Themselves to Death? 100,000-Year-Old Paint Mixing Kits Found Tyrannosaurus Rex Goes Up a Size Is the Black Death the Ancestor of All Modern Plagues? Wall Street: 300 Years of Protests Urban Infernos Throughout History Great American Garage Entrepreneurs Fred Shuttlesworth, Noted Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 89 Archaeological Survey Reveals Life on Gallipoli’s Front Lines When Royal Watching Becomes Royal Stalking Prehistoric Children Finger-Painted on Cave Walls 10 Things You Didn’t Know About William the Conqueror Silver-Laden World War II Shipwreck Discovered Unraveling the Dead Sea Scrolls: Six Fascinating Facts Evidence of Major Ancient Roman Shipyard Found Human Skulls Mounted on Stakes Found at Stone Age Burial Site On Talk Like a Pirate Day, Landlubbers Arrr Shouting ‘Ahoy’ Remembering Albert Szent-Györgyi Feathers in Amber Shed Light on Dinosaur Plumage Did Ancient Crocodiles Clash With History’s Largest Snakes? Jackie Through the Ages: Slideshow Famous Expeditions That Fell Off the Map Meet Your New Ancestor: Slideshow 9/11 Anniversary: Online Features and Television Schedule Beyond Green Cheese: Myths and Theories About the Moon Freddie Mercury & Other Celebrities Who Raised AIDS Awareness Arlington Oak, Which Shaded JFK’s Grave, Fell Victim to Hurricane From Hippo Fat to Vacuum Helmets, a History of Baldness Prevention Were Tasmanian Tigers Unfairly Driven to Extinction?
Prisoner Exchanges Across the Bridge of Spies, From Powers to Shcharansky Last World War I Veteran Dies at the Age of 110 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Charles Dickens Did Beer Spur the Rise of Agriculture and Politics? Queen Elizabeth Marks 60-Year Reign With Diamond Jubilee Super Bowl Owes Its Name to a Bouncy Ball Groundhog Day: History and Facts Mona Lisa’s Long-Lost Twin Turns Up in Spain Little Ice Age, Big Consequences Horse Domestication Happened Across Eurasia, Study Shows 45 Years Ago: Apollo 1 Mission Ends in Disaster Native Americans Hailed From Siberian Highlands, DNA Reveals Oldest Known Dinosaur Nesting Site Was Also a Nursery A Brief History of Penmanship on National Handwriting Day The Tuskegee Airmen: 5 Fascinating Facts Popcorn Was Popular in Ancient Peru, Discovery Suggests Jack the Ripper ‘Autobiography’ Hits Shelves Drink Some Whiskey, Call in the Morning: Doctors & Prohibition 700-Year-Old William Wallace Letter Finally Reaches Scotland 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Alexander Hamilton Does Primitive Claw Disqualify So-Called ‘Missing Link’ Candidate? Amazing Treasures From Titanic to Be Auctioned: Slideshow 7 Things You Didn’t Know About Joan of Arc Powerful Arms Saved Saber-Toothed Killers’ Fearsome Fangs, Study Shows First Woman to Circle the Globe Honored at Last This Year in History: 2011 New Year’s History: Festive Facts War Animals From Horses to Glowworms: 7 Incredible Facts Curse of 27, or Is It Only Rock ‘n’ Roll? Life and Death of Kim Jong Il: Slideshow Is Marriage History? Facts About the Bill of Rights on Its 220th Anniversary Offerings Discovered at Base of Teotihuacan’s Pyramid of the Sun African Meeting House, Oldest U.S. Black Church, Reopens After Restoration European Unions Throughout History World’s Oldest Known Beds Repelled Bugs First Super Predator Was a Hawk-Eyed Shrimp, Study Shows 5 Facts About Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Do U.S. Presidents Age Faster While in Office? 17th-Century Londoners Died of Fright, Itch and Grief Mayans Never Predicted December 2012 Apocalypse, Researchers Say 10 Spies Who Aren’t Household Names Square Dancing: A Swinging History Is East Asia the Kennel of Dog Civilization? Seeing Sounds, Hearing Colors: Good for Survival? For Perfect Teeth, Start Hunting and Gathering Was Victim of Earliest Known Human-on-Human Attack Saved By Compassion? Louis Daguerre, Photo Pioneer Honored By Google: Interesting Facts A History of White House Attacks The House That J. Edgar Built: FBI Facts An Ancient Greek SoHo? 40 Years Ago: Mars Exploration Milestone Reached 8 Famous Folks You Might Not Know Were Veterans Was Expanding Universe Discoverer Too Humble for Hubble? Cave Painters Didn’t Dream Up Spotted Horses, Study Shows Vietnam in HD Premieres on HISTORY Remembering Marie Curie on Her 144th Birthday Flirting With Dinosaurs Ancient ‘Fast Food’ Window Discovered Unlikely World War II Soldiers Awarded Nation’s Highest Honor Statue of Liberty Turns 125: Video Last of Polish Pilots Who Defended England During Battle of Britain Dies Cannon Loosed from Wreckage of Blackbeard’s Pirate Ship The National WWII Museum Commemorates 70 Years Since Pearl Harbor Astronomers Solve Puzzle of First Supernova on Record 10 Things You Didn’t Know About William Shakespeare Notorious Mothers-in-Law Throughout History Forensics Put a Face to a Stone Age Boy’s Remains Is the Declaration of Independence Illegal? The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi: Slideshow Viking Chief Buried in His Boat Found in Scotland Did Jamestown’s Settlers Drink Themselves to Death? 100,000-Year-Old Paint Mixing Kits Found Tyrannosaurus Rex Goes Up a Size Is the Black Death the Ancestor of All Modern Plagues? Wall Street: 300 Years of Protests Urban Infernos Throughout History Great American Garage Entrepreneurs Fred Shuttlesworth, Noted Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 89 Archaeological Survey Reveals Life on Gallipoli’s Front Lines When Royal Watching Becomes Royal Stalking Prehistoric Children Finger-Painted on Cave Walls 10 Things You Didn’t Know About William the Conqueror Silver-Laden World War II Shipwreck Discovered Unraveling the Dead Sea Scrolls: Six Fascinating Facts Evidence of Major Ancient Roman Shipyard Found Human Skulls Mounted on Stakes Found at Stone Age Burial Site On Talk Like a Pirate Day, Landlubbers Arrr Shouting ‘Ahoy’ Remembering Albert Szent-Györgyi Feathers in Amber Shed Light on Dinosaur Plumage Did Ancient Crocodiles Clash With History’s Largest Snakes? Jackie Through the Ages: Slideshow Famous Expeditions That Fell Off the Map Meet Your New Ancestor: Slideshow 9/11 Anniversary: Online Features and Television Schedule Beyond Green Cheese: Myths and Theories About the Moon Freddie Mercury & Other Celebrities Who Raised AIDS Awareness Arlington Oak, Which Shaded JFK’s Grave, Fell Victim to Hurricane From Hippo Fat to Vacuum Helmets, a History of Baldness Prevention Were Tasmanian Tigers Unfairly Driven to Extinction?
