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In June of 1865 the CSS Shenandoah, a Confederate ship, continued to pursue and attack Union whalers in the Bering Sea despite the Civil War being officially over.
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The Final Shot of the Civil War Happened Off the Coast of Alaska
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During Prohibition bootleggers filtered industrial alcohol in order to remove poisonous additives, only to see the government react by increasing the levels of poison, thus creating an epidemic of alcohol poisoning.
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The US Government Poisoned Thousands Of People During Prohibition
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In 1943 President Roosevelt allowed the formation of a combat unit comprising mostly of interned Japanese-Americans which would later distinguish itself in combat in France and Italy.
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The Japanese-American Combat Unit That Fought the Nazis
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In 1859 farmer Lyman Cutler discovered a pig gorging itself on his potatoes so he shot it. The sequence of events that would follow would bring the United States and Great Britain to the edge of war.
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The Runaway Pig That Almost Started a War
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Unbelievably, a photo of Jewish Latvian immigrant Hessy Levininsons Taft made its way to the cover of a Nazi propaganda magazine.
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The Jewish Baby That Became the Face Of Nazi Propaganda
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In a long-forgotten passage from civil rights history, Elizabeth Jennings fought for her and other "colored persons'" rights to ride streetcars in New York City after she had been thrown off of one in July 1854.
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Elizabeth Jennings Fights Segregation 100 Years Before Rosa Parks
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Host Joe Moniaci takes a peek into a long-forgotten bomb shelter in New York's Brooklyn Bridge.
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The Forgotten Nuclear Bomb Shelter in the Brooklyn Bridge
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At the height of the Cold War the US decides to construct a nuclear missile base under the ice sheet of Greenland, without anticipating an unfortunate consequence.
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America's Nuclear Base Under Greenland's Ice Sheet
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Amid the tension and competition of the space race the Soviet Union attempted to steal America's thunder by landing a probe on the moon at the same time as the Apollo 11 landing.
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Russia Tried to Gate Crash Man's First Walk on the Moon
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You may know that Coca-Cola actually started out with its main selling point being that of its cocaine content, but did you know that the drink still uses coca leaves?
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Remember When the Main Ingredient of Coca-Cola was Cocaine?
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Black Tom Island, a major munitions depot in NY Harbor was the scene of a massive explosion in July of 1916 that was originally blamed on lit smudge pots.
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When NY Harbor Was Bombed by German Agents in 1916
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Before copyright laws lyricists and musicians freely took popular tunes and used them for their own purposes, as Francis Scott Key did with the popular British drinking song The Anacreontic Song.
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US National Anthem Taken from a British Drinking Song
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It's claimed that as Sergey Kirov, head of the Communist Party in Leningrad, became more and more popular Stalin had him assassinated and used this as a pretext to purge his political rivals.
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As he demonstrated with one particular dissident, Mao uses violence and intimidation to craft a sort of toolkit of terror in order to establish himself as the unchallenged leader of a nascent Communist China.
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Mussolini leaves no room for opposition in his bloody quest to create a new Roman empire.
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Bin Laden becomes a heroic figure on the battlefield setting him up to become a leader of militant Muslims.
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Bin Laden's Rise from Battlefield Hero to Militant Leader
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Despite being in high positions within the North Korean hierarchy Kim Jong-il has those who question his suitability to succeed his father murdered.
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Kim Jong-il Kills Those In the Way of His Ascent to Power
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After recovering from a heart attack that left him unconscious for 9 hours and with possible neurological damage, Haiti's Francois Duvalier became more paranoid, erratic and repressive.
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In 1932 Rear Admiral Harry Yarnell mounted a simulated attack on Pearl Harbor utilizing carrier-based airplanes to expose how vulnerable it was to a carrier-borne attack. The Japanese took notice.
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The Pearl Harbor Attack of 1932
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There are many misconceptions surrounding our understanding of General George Armstrong Custer and his final campaign against the Plains Indians but the actual facts are more compelling than the fiction.
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Our vision of Paul Revere's midnight ride is all wrong, especially how it concludes.
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George Washington was preceded by several other Presidents of the United States.
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Facts vs. Fiction:George Washington Not our First President
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Paul Revere has been billed as America?s first action hero after his famous "Midnight Ride" but as truth would have it, he was part of a network.
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America: Facts vs. Fiction
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Facts vs. Fiction:It Wasn't Just Paul Revere
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The Articles of Confederation proved to be more trouble than help, with individual states all pushing their interests and agendas, to the point of threatening the country as a whole.
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Such were his powers of organization and logistics, Dwight Eisenhower was always kept away from combat because he made others better and more well-prepared for it.
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Eisenhower Had How Much Combat Experience?
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There were actually two boats of Pilgrims that left England for the US, and Plymouth Rock was not the first place the Mayflower disembarked.
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Facts vs. Fiction:What Really Happened with the Mayflower
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