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World War IArchduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife assassinated in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia on June 28, 1914. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

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Outbreak of World War I

Europe by 1914 Almost exactly a century before, a meeting of the European states at the Congress of Vienna had established an international order and balance of power that lasted for almost a century. By 1914, however, a multitude of forces was threatening to tear it apart. The Balkan Peninsula, in southeastern Europe, was a […]

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Angel Island Immigration Station

Chinese Exclusion Act

Chinese Immigration in America The Opium Wars (1839-42, 1856-60) of the mid-nineteenth century between Great Britain and China left China heavily in debt. Additionally, floods and drought contributed to an exodus of peasants from their farms, and many left the country to find work. When gold was discovered in the Sacramento Valley of California in […]

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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher: Childhood and Education Margaret Hilda Roberts, later Margaret Thatcher, was born on October 13, 1925, in Grantham, a small town in Lincolnshire, England. Her parents, Alfred and Beatrice, were middle-class shopkeepers and devout Methodists. Alfred was also a politician, serving as a town council member for 16 years before becoming an alderman in […]

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When Sexual Assaults Made History

Incidents of sexual violence have long been a brutal part of the human story. Sometimes they’ve changed the course of history.

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Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the world's most wanted-drug trafficker, center, is escorted by Mexican security forces at a Navy hangar in Mexico City, Mexico, on Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. (Credit: Susana Gonzalez/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

8 Times America’s War on Drugs Was Stranger Than Fiction

When the United States first launched the “War on Drugs” in the mid-20th century, not even the cleverest conspiracy theorists could have imagined the far-reaching consequences the campaign would have around the world. From the CIA allowing drug traffickers to flourish in exchange for their assistance in toppling leftist leaders abroad to the deal made […]

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Is King Arthur Real?

Was King Arthur a Real Person?

We’ve all heard stories about King Arthur of Camelot, who according to medieval legend led British forces (including his trusted Knights of the Round Table) in battle against Saxon invaders in the early sixth century. But was King Arthur actually a real person, or simply a hero of Celtic mythology? Though debate has gone on […]

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A crest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen 03 August 2007 inside the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC.

9 FBI Fast Facts

Get the story behind America’s domestic intelligence agency.

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1965

Joe Namath spurns NFL to sign record deal with AFL’s New York Jets

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1869

Rutgers beats Princeton in first college football game

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1972

Bobby Fischer becomes the first American to win the World Chess Championship

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