History

A cemetery on a country road near Sacramento features three rows of granite headstones with the same inscription: "Unknown, moved from Negro Hill Cemetery by US Government – ​​1954."The graves contain the remains of 36 settlers from Negro…
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Ravi water flow from India to Pakistan has been completely stopped as the construction of Shahpur Kandi Barrage has been completed. Read more about the history and timeline...…
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Chuck Mawhinney, whose ability to crawl through the dense jungle and looming elephant grass of South Vietnam and then wait for hours with his aiming rifle to pick off an enemy soldier made him the deadliest sniper in Marine Corps history…
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Noah Cyrus, Pinkus. Araya Doheny/Getty Images for GLSEN Noah Cyrus has found lasting love with her fiancé, Pinkusafter a handful of high-profile romances. The "July" singer is very outspoken when it…
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We’re only just over seven weeks into 2024 and already the news is full of ­stories of powerful men facing allegations of sexual misdemeanours.The latest industry to be targeted as a ­hotbed of misogyny is the music business, which was…
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As the years pass, history has a tendency to take on a life of its own. This leads to the formation of popular misunderstandings in the minds of the public. Many of those mistaken thoughts about “facts” and what “supposedly” happened…
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This February is on track to be the warmest February on record as scientists warn the planet is warming at an 'accelerating' rate.Data from the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute shows that the first eight days of…
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Charles Sallis, a Mississippi historian who co-authored a high school textbook that revolutionized the teaching of Mississippi's troubled history, died Feb. 5 at his home in Jackson, Miss. He was 89.His death was confirmed by his son…
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Jodie Foster has revealed she came dangerously close to starring as one of the most iconic characters in film history.The actress, 61, has shared that she was cast as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars series, but had to turn it down…
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This week I spent time in what I have come to think of as Anne de Courcy's expanded universe.De Courcy, a British journalist and prolific author of popular history books, writes about the past through the stories of women of that time.…
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