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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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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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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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Despite being expelled from Harvard, it was there that William Randolph Hearst's interest in journalism and publishing flourished. While not interested in the majority of his father's businesses Hearst did latch onto the San Francisco Examiner.
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William Randolph Hearst Gets Expelled from Harvard and Goes to a Newspaper
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Despite the superiority of his groundbreaking revolver, Samuel Colt's business goes bust because of the Panic of 1837. In steps Texas Ranger Sam Walker to set Colt's business back onto the right track.
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Sam Walker Puts Samuel Colt Back in Business
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While still in the throes of grief Samuel Morse learns from a fellow passenger on a ship back to the US from Europe about electro magnets, which sparks an idea that would lead to a huge leap in communications.
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Samuel Morse's Flash of Genius Born of Grief
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Adolphus Busch embraces innovations such as pasteurization, refrigeration, and mechanization in his revolutionary efforts to get cold beer to the thirsty masses.
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Getting Cold Beer to the Masses Drives Sweeping Innovations
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Already a successful and canny businessman by the age of 20, John D. Rockefeller sensed that he had to get into the oil business after the Titusville, Pennsylvania oil rush began and as the demand for oil-related products grew.
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Rockefeller and the First Oil Rush
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A 13-year-old Andrew Carnegie and his family arrived in America poor and in debt, but by the age of 18 the prodigious boy was already on his way to great professional success.
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Gaddafi Sponsors Terrorism Across the Globe
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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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Stalin Purges Enemies and Friends Alike
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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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Evolution of Evil
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Mao Tortures His Way To Power
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