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Tim Ott
Tim Ott has written for HISTORY.com and other A+E sites since 2012. He has also contributed to sites including MLB.com and Optimism, and teaches writing in his adopted hometown of Fort Lee, New Jersey.
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The unpopular switch fueled competing days of observance.
Both honor U.S. military personnel—but the holidays arose for different reasons.
Workers completed the 102-story, Art Deco-style landmark in an astonishing one year and 45 days.
The African American track star hardly derailed Nazi plans for global disruption, but Jesse Owens did emerge as the standout figure of the Fuhrer's signature Olympic Games.
An 18th-century sign language in France helped inspire an American version that developed through collaboration among the Deaf community.
Here are some of the essential items that typical doughboys carried with them on the battlefields of World War I.
In the late 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble pointed a mountaintop telescope at distant clusters in the night sky, and made a startling observation.
