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- Why the Romanov Family’s Fate Was a Secret Until the Fall of the Soviet Union October 18, 2018
  Tsar Nicholas and his family waited patiently in the basement. For much of 1918, the Romanov family had been the captives of the Bolsheviks who overthrew Nicholas II in the bloody Russian Revolution, and they were used to moving from place to place. They had no idea they had reached their final ...
  Erin Blakemore
- 5 Notable Women Hanged in the Salem Witch Trials October 18, 2018
  In early 1692, during the depths of winter in Massachusetts Bay Colony, a group of young girls in the village of Salem began acting strangely. The daughter and niece of the local minister, Samuel Parris, claimed to be afflicted by invisible forces who bit and pinched them, sending their limbs ...
  Sarah Pruitt
- This New York Village Seceded from the Union...for 85 Years October 18, 2018
  Sometime before the end of 1861, the men of a small New York hamlet gathered inside the village schoolhouse and voted 85 to 40 to sever ties with the United States. Seven Southern states had already seceded from the Union, but few could have imagined that this community 250 miles north of the ...
  Christopher Klein
- How FDR Charmed a Saudi King and Won U.S. Access to Oil October 18, 2018
  A secret war-time meeting. Fear of an oil shortage. An exchange of gifts (including a wheelchair) and a budding friendship. When Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Abdul Aziz ibn Saud on February 14, 1945 aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Suez Canal, it was the first time a U.S. president had ever ...
  Lesley Kennedy
- Why Mexican Americans Say ‘The Border Crossed Us’ October 17, 2018
  Before Texas was a U.S. state, it was its own independent nation where both Mexicans and white immigrants were citizens. But during the nine years that the Republic of Texas existed, Mexicans became outsiders as white settlers made it more difficult for them to vote and hold onto their ...
  Becky Little
- The CIA Recruited 'Mind Readers' to Spy on the Soviets in the 1970s October 17, 2018
  During the tense period of the Cold War, the U.S. government sought to deploy a potent new weapon against the Soviet Union: mind-reading. In a highly classified project conducted first in a California research lab in the 1970s, and later at an Army base in Maryland, the CIA, Army and Defense ...
  Sarah Pruitt
- How a Dictator Got Away With a Brazen Murder in D.C. in 1976 October 16, 2018
  One September morning in 1976, a bomb blew up a car as it was driving up Embassy Row in Washington, D.C. When police arrived at the scene, they found a human foot in the road, and a man lying on the pavement who was missing half his legs. Minutes later, he was dead. That man […]
  Becky Little
- When the Sears Catalog Sold Everything from Houses to Hubcaps October 16, 2018
  Before there was Amazon.com, there was the Sears catalog. Founded as a mail-order watch company in the late 19th century, Sears, Roebuck and Company made its name with its swollen, jam-packed catalogs that advertised everything from underwear to entire house kits. Around the holidays, families ...
  Sarah Pruitt
- How Marie Antoinette's Legacy Was Sullied By Vicious Songs About Her Death October 16, 2018
  Few women in history have inspired as many myths as Marie-Antoinette, the last queen of France, typically portrayed as the embodiment of excess and debauchery. Many of those myths are based on the vicious and often pornographic Revolutionary propaganda that poured from French printing presses in ...
  Una McIlvenna
- Massive Rare Viking Ship Revealed by Radar October 16, 2018
  A massive Viking ship has been found in Norway less than two feet below the Earth’s surface. Archaeologists at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) made the discovery using radar designed to permeate the ground without actually excavating any artifacts. The Viking ...
  Thad Morgan
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