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46a6e0f84d89d8ed763e8e82e4040158 | https://www.history.com/news/vincent-chin-murder-asian-american-rights | How the 1982 Murder of Vincent Chin Ignited a Push for Asian American Rights | How the 1982 Murder of Vincent Chin Ignited a Push for Asian American Rights
On June 19, 1982, a Chinese American man named Vincent Chin went with friends to a strip club in Detroit to celebrate his upcoming wedding. That night, two white men who apparently thought Chin was Japanese beat him to death. At the killers’ t... |
bc91176ceb5f6f2cfa3ed84be21e80d8 | https://www.history.com/news/vladimir-putin-russia-power | The Humiliation that Pushed Putin to Try and Recapture Russian Glory | The Humiliation that Pushed Putin to Try and Recapture Russian Glory
Dominant at home and feared abroad, Vladimir Putin has come a long way since 2000, when he took over an ailing Russia still traumatized from the collapse of the Soviet Union a decade previously.
Then, Putin was seen as a gray nobody, another technocra... |
3c397076bf55f121932770561a515c03 | https://www.history.com/news/vomitoriums-fact-or-fiction | Vomitoriums: Fact or Fiction? | Vomitoriums: Fact or Fiction?
It’s been reported as true by legends, textbooks and history teachers who just want to get kids interested in Tacitus. In fact, it might be the only thing you know about eating habits in ancient Rome. But did the average John Doeus actually throw up in a vomitorium during feast times just ... |
9073422d55d6c97fd5d90c528997e375 | https://www.history.com/news/vote-by-mail-soldiers-war | Vote by Mail Has a Long History in the United States | Vote by Mail Has a Long History in the United States
Voting by mail can trace its roots to soldiers voting far from home during the Civil War and World War II. By the late 1800s, some states were extending absentee ballots to civilian voters under certain conditions, but it wasn’t until 2000 that Oregon became the firs... |
449520bb22e31eded752b5ee38192e2a | https://www.history.com/news/voter-registration-elections-president-midterms | The Exclusionary History of Voter Registration Dates to 1800 | The Exclusionary History of Voter Registration Dates to 1800
When George Washington was elected as the first U.S. president in 1789, he won with a landslide, securing 69 out of 69 available electoral votes. But only a very limited part of the population had actually voted since white property owners were the only group... |
c857d718e404372f6a0ef7000c08778e | https://www.history.com/news/voter-suppression-history-opelousas-massacre | The 1868 Louisiana Massacre that Reversed Reconstruction-Era Gains | The 1868 Louisiana Massacre that Reversed Reconstruction-Era Gains
In September 1868, a dispute over a column published in an Opelousas, Louisiana partisan newspaper provoked one of the bloodiest incidents of racial violence in the Reconstruction era. The attackers' goal: to reverse dramatic political gains made by Bla... |
64b020b1e121191ed2e6255565551dc8 | https://www.history.com/news/voting-elections-ballots-electronic | How Americans Have Voted Through History | How Americans Have Voted Through History
Voting is the cornerstone of American democracy, but the United States Constitution doesn’t say exactly how Americans should cast their ballots in elections. Article 1, Section 4 simply states that it’s up to each state to determine “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elect... |
da4947771694852d378fda753d6f9e70 | https://www.history.com/news/waco-20-years-later-where-are-they-now | Waco, 20 Years Later: Where Are They Now? | Waco, 20 Years Later: Where Are They Now?
1. David Koresh Born Vernon Wayne Howell, he changed his name to David Koresh in 1990 after becoming leader of the Branch Davidians, an offshoot of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In addition to proclaiming himself the messiah and preaching that the end of the world was near,... |
a6dafd99d1ffb8659976e0b1b5007281 | https://www.history.com/news/want-to-eat-like-a-colonist-ask-this-virginia-chef | Want To Eat Like A Colonist? Ask This Virginia Chef | Want To Eat Like A Colonist? Ask This Virginia Chef
Frog’s legs, gooseberries, candied fruit peel, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, artichoke hearts and potatoes. It may sound like the weirdest shopping list ever, but in reality it’s the recipe for a pie once considered a delicacy by Virginia’s richest colonists. And Fra... |
90ee10ea4e435e8682da3645681365ce | https://www.history.com/news/warren-g-hardings-steamy-love-letters-unsealed | Warren G. Harding’s Steamy Love Letters Unsealed | Warren G. Harding’s Steamy Love Letters Unsealed
The affair between the future president and the wife of one of his best friends, dry-goods store operator James Phillips, began in August 1905 when Harding was lieutenant governor of Ohio and spanned his six years in the U.S. Senate before his landslide election to the W... |
8b64af42034cd11b5a7efbaafdd2ff0e | https://www.history.com/news/was-dracula-a-real-person | Was Dracula a real person? | Was Dracula a real person?
Published in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Gothic novel “Dracula” launched an entire genre of literature and film about vampires, those sinister figures who use their supernatural powers to hunt humans and drink their blood. To create his immortal antihero, Count Dracula, Stoker certainly drew on popul... |
6b4b6ce907c47f7662665f5ca255d2d9 | https://www.history.com/news/was-ernest-hemingway-a-spy | Was Ernest Hemingway a Spy? | Was Ernest Hemingway a Spy?
In his book “Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935-1961,” Nicholas Reynolds chronicles Hemingway’s suspected espionage work for both Soviet and U.S. intelligence agencies, before and during the Cold War. A military historian and former U.S. Marine colonel, ... |
6731ce28a2cc22efbb0d76f4d46e9466 | https://www.history.com/news/was-germany-doomed-in-world-war-i-by-the-schlieffen-plan | Was Germany Doomed in World War I by the Schlieffen Plan? | Was Germany Doomed in World War I by the Schlieffen Plan?
The Schlieffen Plan, devised a decade before the start of World War I, outlined a strategy for Germany to avoid fighting at its eastern and western fronts simultaneously. But what had been meticulously designed to deal a swift “right hook” attack on France and t... |
7a1262c9ab00777a512a806540a794cc | https://www.history.com/news/was-jesus-real-historical-evidence | The Bible Says Jesus Was Real. What Other Proof Exists? | The Bible Says Jesus Was Real. What Other Proof Exists?
While billions of people believe Jesus of Nazareth was one of the most important figures in world history, many others reject the idea that he even existed at all. A 2015 survey conducted by the Church of England, for instance, found that 22 percent of adults in E... |
b54c8694be7d2ec6dc79979ae42a06e0 | https://www.history.com/news/was-king-arthur-a-real-person | Was King Arthur a real person? | Was King Arthur a real person?
We’ve all heard stories about King Arthur of Camelot, who according to medieval legend led British forces (including his trusted Knights of the Round Table) in battle against Saxon invaders in the early sixth century. But was King Arthur actually a real person, or simply a hero of Celtic ... |
2bee67f8f830ba06ca42eed387b96b89 | https://www.history.com/news/was-king-tut-buried-in-a-hurry | Was King Tut Buried in a Hurry? | Was King Tut Buried in a Hurry?
Ancient Egypt’s boy king became pharaoh at the age of 9 and ruled for a single decade between 1333 and 1324 B.C. Relatively obscure during his lifetime, Tutankhamen became a household name in 1922, when the archaeologist Howard Carter found his remarkable tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Ki... |
f0f02e8b23aba95f8dabd12b726dad8c | https://www.history.com/news/was-st-patrick-actually-irish | Was St. Patrick Irish? | Was St. Patrick Irish?
The Irish have a special claim over St. Patrick’s Day, even though the holiday has come to be celebrated by people of all backgrounds and religions. But was the man of the hour, St. Patrick, even Irish? Long story short, no.
Not much is known about the birthplace of St. Patrick, which was given a... |
1e3ffb22adffe16aef859c29ea14948b | https://www.history.com/news/was-there-a-real-mother-goose | Was there a real Mother Goose? | Was there a real Mother Goose?
If you’ve ever visited the Old Granary Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts, you may have stumbled upon the tombstone of Mary Goose, a woman believed by some to be the infamous author of countless cherished nursery rhymes: Mother Goose. Visitors toss coins at her tombstone, presumably ... |
8f3a13eb41c390254f1de54efe96c098 | https://www.history.com/news/washington-dc-statehood-reconstruction | Why Isn't Washington, D.C. a State? | Why Isn't Washington, D.C. a State?
Leading up to the American Revolution, one of the colonists’ chief complaints about the British Empire was that it imposed “taxation without representation”—a slogan that Washington, D.C. has since adopted as its unofficial motto.
In 2000, D.C. started printing “Taxation Without Repr... |
04ab10ce70e6a7845004db715ab83a87 | https://www.history.com/news/washington-farewell-address | How Washington's Farewell Address Inspired Future Presidents | How Washington's Farewell Address Inspired Future Presidents
Hyper-partisanship. Excessive debt. Foreign influence in our elections. Sounds like a litany of some of America’s greatest challenges.
But some threats never end and these topped the list of what kept George Washington up at night, fearing for the future of t... |
ea22e070cdf3c94ffc52f6349783a295 | https://www.history.com/news/water-once-flowed-on-mars-rover-pictures-suggest | Water Once Flowed on Mars, Rover Pictures Suggest | Water Once Flowed on Mars, Rover Pictures Suggest
The Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since late August, has gathered strong evidence that water once flowed on the Red Planet’s surface, NASA scientists announced last week. Just weeks into its two-year mission, the robotic explorer beamed back images of t... |
25bac81ffae8347fcfb90d909923d32d | https://www.history.com/news/water-tunnel-found-under-mayan-kings-tomb | Water Tunnel Found Under Mayan King’s Tomb | Water Tunnel Found Under Mayan King’s Tomb
Shrouded in the dense jungle of the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, the Temple of the Inscriptions was one of the most complex construction projects ever undertaken by the Mayans, and for hundreds of years the stone pyramid that towered over the ancient city of Palenque con... |
12d21990297da119c7f7993efce562a7 | https://www.history.com/news/watergate-deep-throat-fbi-informant-nixon | How ‘Deep Throat’ Took Down Nixon From Inside the FBI | How ‘Deep Throat’ Took Down Nixon From Inside the FBI
Former FBI deputy director William Mark Felt, Sr., age 91, broke his 30-year silence and confirmed in June 2005 that he was “Deep Throat,” the anonymous government source who had leaked crucial information to Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward... |
7493d5cbb7bf8d7e619d61c15ad3d88a | https://www.history.com/news/watergate-nixon-john-dean-tapes | Watergate: How John Dean Helped Bring Down Nixon | Watergate: How John Dean Helped Bring Down Nixon
President Richard Nixon might have gotten away with it if it weren't for John Dean. In June 1973, Dean testified before Congress that Nixon knew about the Watergate cover-up. Not only that, Dean said he suspected there was taped evidence—and he was he right.
“There are f... |
2e089f2d1088b69209eaaf47609d4073 | https://www.history.com/news/we-asked-a-historian-where-to-go-in-ohio | We Asked a Historian Where to Go in Ohio | We Asked a Historian Where to Go in Ohio
Location: The ancient Newark Earthworks in Newark, OhioExpert: Lucy Murphy, Professor of History at Ohio State University
Why It’s Worth a Visit In the grassy hills of Newark, Ohio, you could almost walk by one of the American continent’s ancient wonders—if you didn’t know what ... |
f0c21f3e9e6a65fc20ec4b8d752bfc62 | https://www.history.com/news/we-may-not-be-part-neanderthal-after-all | We May Not Be Part Neanderthal After All | We May Not Be Part Neanderthal After All
Since 2010, a number of studies have suggested that Neanderthals, previously considered our close evolutionary cousins, are actually the ancestors of most humans alive today. After successfully sequencing the extinct hominins’ genome, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for E... |
e97f3f36f1102b22297add9106847d79 | https://www.history.com/news/were-humans-responsible-for-killing-off-the-wooly-mammoth | Were Humans Responsible for Killing Off the Wooly Mammoth? | Were Humans Responsible for Killing Off the Wooly Mammoth?
For decades now, scientists have debated why prehistoric behemoths such as the wooly mammoth, the wooly rhino, the saber-toothed tiger and the giant armadillo all went extinct between 80,000 and 10,000 years ago. Climate change, species-wide disease outbreaks a... |
cb2023ee2bf9191d71ab0d1959dc7ff4 | https://www.history.com/news/were-mtvs-awards-the-first-gender-neutral-ones | Were MTV’s awards the first gender-neutral ones? | Were MTV’s awards the first gender-neutral ones?
MTV made waves when Emma Watson was awarded a non-gender specific “Best Actor” award for her performance in “Beauty and the Beast.” But while this may be a first for the MTV Movie & TV Awards, it’s not a first for the entertainment industry.
For the top honors in film a... |
cca36a8a73080bdc272fe5088d1622a3 | https://www.history.com/news/what-are-the-crystal-skulls | What are the crystal skulls? | What are the crystal skulls?
Beginning in the late 19th century, around a dozen carved skulls made of clear or milky white quartz—also known as rock crystal—made their way into private and public collections around the globe. Since then, the origins of these “crystal skulls” have been the subject of ongoing mystery and... |
3797e33026a45cdbae1372ad278c9327 | https://www.history.com/news/what-caused-the-maya-collapse-archaeologists-uncover-new-clues | What Caused the Maya Collapse? Archaeologists Uncover New Clues | What Caused the Maya Collapse? Archaeologists Uncover New Clues
For more than a decade, a team led by researchers from the University of Arizona has been working at the archaeological site of Ceibal in northern Guatemala. After assembling a record-setting 154 radiocarbon dates, the researchers have been able to develop... |
26ad99725109a5257fd734e5bfe61b0c | https://www.history.com/news/what-did-jesus-look-like | What Did Jesus Look Like? | What Did Jesus Look Like?
For centuries, the most common image of Jesus Christ, at least in Western cultures, has been that of a bearded, fair-skinned man with long, wavy, light brown or blond hair and (often) blue eyes. But the Bible doesn’t describe Jesus physically, and all the evidence we do have indicates he proba... |
5ab64eb2de3d9361412fd2660c43ef70 | https://www.history.com/news/what-does-it-mean-to-call-someone-a-benedict-arnold | What does it mean to call someone a “Benedict Arnold”? | What does it mean to call someone a “Benedict Arnold”?
Shortly after the Revolutionary War broke out in April of 1775, Benedict Arnold set out as captain of the Connecticut Militia Company to join the Continental Army in Massachusetts. Together with Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, Arnold captured Fort Ticonder... |
a4bfe857ccd7bce822550b3f7e04e54c | https://www.history.com/news/what-goes-into-a-hot-tamale | What Goes Into a Hot Tamale? | What Goes Into a Hot Tamale?
Ground beef, processed corn, sweet or savory fillings, leaf or husk wrappers plus 9,000 years of social, cultural and religious history combine to wrap up one of Mexico and Central America’s greatest contributions to global cuisine.
The word tamale comes, via the Spanish “tamal”, from Nahua... |
dea4097a5a7746b17478c55253628d6e | https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-venus-de-milos-arms | What happened to the Venus de Milo’s arms? | What happened to the Venus de Milo’s arms?
One of the most famous examples of ancient Greek sculpture, the Venus de Milo is immediately recognizable by its missing arms and popularly believed to represent Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, who was known to the Romans as Venus. The artwork was discovered i... |
480e26b3bb244b1dc2b91ce05d4685a8 | https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-zapruder-film | What happened to the Zapruder film? | What happened to the Zapruder film?
On November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder shot what has become the most famous home movie of all time: a chilling 26-second snippet of film depicting the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The Russian-born Zapruder was a clothing manufacturer whose office sat across the street ... |
d4921b6794c73f9396edfba85a79565c | https://www.history.com/news/what-if-the-moon-landing-had-failed | What If the Moon Landing Had Failed? | What If the Moon Landing Had Failed?
On May 25, 1961, the new American president, John F. Kennedy, stood in front of a joint session of Congress and called on the country to launch a bold initiative: “This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and ret... |
70bb83bbc2bf3eb600393bd73b56bafb | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-baseballs-modern-era | What is baseball’s “modern era”? | What is baseball’s “modern era”?
The start of the 20th century might not seem particularly modern–after all, there were only 45 states in the Union, hardly anyone owned a car (the Model T didn’t debut until 1908) and William McKinley, a Civil War vet, occupied the White House. However, 1900 is now considered the beginn... |
a7da5dc81e9f443d8d42667ca3280318 | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-earth-really-made-of | What Is Earth Really Made Of? | What Is Earth Really Made Of?
More Liquid, Less Solid The theory that the interior of Earth may once have been less solid and more liquid than was originally believed is getting a boost from recent research. Newly uncovered evidence suggests the existence of a layer of magma running near the boundary between Earth’s c... |
5d7d49b1acb6a6c312e3dbe907259b55 | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-flag-day | What Is Flag Day? | What Is Flag Day?
When the American Revolution broke out in 1775, the colonists weren’t fighting united under a single flag. Instead, most regiments participating in the war for independence against the British fought under their own flags. In June of 1775, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to create ... |
ad58b1c291b6df2bb6257eb644350ac1 | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-hadrians-wall | What is Hadrian’s Wall? | What is Hadrian’s Wall?
Built on the orders of the Roman Emperor Hadrian and located in Great Britain, Hadrian’s Wall was a defensive fortification that marked the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire for three centuries. The wall measured 73 miles in length and stretched from coast to coast across present-day northe... |
3cf9cf7542084a4fe387be4a639892ca | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-juneteenth?fbclid=IwAR0J1fFyqdz7r9P0BiBmogZKUgqL3d8K851B6K8cm8XwpXwuu3ShM7nrWNM | What Is Juneteenth? | What Is Juneteenth?
Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteent... |
890ae2ea16b4e6a9dc3fdf57b3d2c5fe | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-seppuku | What is Seppuku? | What is Seppuku?
Often called “hara-kiri” in the West, “seppuku” is a form of ritual suicide that originated with Japan’s ancient samurai warrior class. The grisly act typically involved stabbing oneself in the belly with a short sword, slicing open the stomach and then turning the blade upwards to ensure a fatal wound... |
190b31a1f1607d5ab53fa6701784c1c8 | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-bermuda-triangle | What is the Bermuda Triangle? | What is the Bermuda Triangle?
A source of fascination for sailors, researchers and crackpots alike, the Bermuda Triangle is a roughly 500,000-square-mile expanse of the Atlantic Ocean located off the coast of Florida. Descriptions of its borders vary, but most accounts cite the three points of the “triangle” as Miami, ... |
36475cf9fda95c555e585715ca06e34c | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-holy-grail | What is the holy grail? | What is the holy grail?
From the knights of medieval legends to Indiana Jones, the holy grail has been the most sought-after Christian relic in popular culture for centuries. The grail is most commonly identified as the cup that Jesus drank from at the Last Supper and that Joseph of Arimathea used to collect Jesus’s bl... |
64862cf51adaa1ebf02f9abce15b5e17 | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-largest-country-in-the-world | What is the largest country in the world? | What is the largest country in the world?
Covering an expanse of over 6.6 million square miles, Russia is the world’s largest country by landmass, beating out runner-up Canada by around 2.8 million square miles. It includes nine different time zones and shares land borders with 14 neighboring countries. Russia’s origin... |
3ee36c642e082a3534320d0bfec1b62c | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-oldest-known-piece-of-music | What is the oldest known piece of music? | What is the oldest known piece of music?
The history of music is as old as humanity itself. Archaeologists have found primitive flutes made of bone and ivory dating back as far as 43,000 years, and it’s likely that many ancient musical styles have been preserved in oral traditions. When it comes to specific songs, howe... |
0aeaeea3449e48da07693adc6fd31e92 | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-origin-of-the-handshake | The History of the Handshake | The History of the Handshake
The handshake has existed in some form or another for thousands of years, but its origins are somewhat murky. One popular theory is that the gesture began as a way of conveying peaceful intentions. By extending their empty right hands, strangers could show that they were not holding weapons... |
41e476641e92bd8c5160e7483a0de7cb | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-stone-of-scone | What is the Stone of Scone? | What is the Stone of Scone?
Although it may sound like a stale tea time pastry, the Stone of Scone is an ancient symbol of Scottish sovereignty. According to legend, the sandstone slab was used by the biblical figure Jacob as a pillow when he dreamed of a ladder reaching to heaven and then brought to Scotland by way of... |
53a90282197bcfb582107ad10b3371f7 | https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-worlds-oldest-democracy | What is the world’s oldest democracy? | What is the world’s oldest democracy?
The term democracy, which means “rule by the people,” was coined by the Greeks of ancient Athens to describe their city-state’s system of self-rule, which reached its golden age around 430 B.C. under the skilled orator and politician Pericles. It is probable that the Athenians were... |
a7db9fbcc9ac5b571f26d5e0648af207 | https://www.history.com/news/what-it-says-on-the-tin-a-brief-history-of-canned-food | How Canned Food Revolutionized The Way We Eat | How Canned Food Revolutionized The Way We Eat
From pickling and salting to smoking and drying, humans have been finding ways to make food last longer since prehistoric times. But by the 18th century, an efficient—and truly effective—means of preservation remained elusive.
In 1795, the French government decided to do so... |
b73196e5b2e527f36747843e4140cbf9 | https://www.history.com/news/what-really-happened-to-yuri-gagarin-the-first-man-in-space | What Really Happened to Yuri Gagarin, the First Man in Space? | What Really Happened to Yuri Gagarin, the First Man in Space?
Becoming the First Man in Space The son of a carpenter, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino in Smolensk, Russia in 1934. At 16, he moved to Moscow to apprentice as a foundry man in a metal works, but soon transferred to a technical ... |
2bda2874d353333dbbb623887a9cc76c | https://www.history.com/news/what-the-bank-of-england-got-wrong-about-jane-austen | What the Bank of England Got Wrong about Jane Austen | What the Bank of England Got Wrong about Jane Austen
The Controversy Yesterday, the Bank of England unveiled a new 10-pound banknote featuring Jane Austen, on the 200th anniversary of her death.
While fans and equality advocates alike were thrilled at the nod to the beloved author (especially after the Bank sparked out... |
0ea2c9ed607968aa6dd6c9cd0d9b9bdf | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-a-george-w-bushs-greatest-achievement | What Was George W. Bush’s Greatest Achievement? | What Was George W. Bush’s Greatest Achievement?
Much of the legacy of President George W. Bush is wrapped around the war on terror and military action in Iraq and Afghanistan, but what many consider his greatest achievement is a public health effort steeped in humanitarianism that won accolades across the political spe... |
1f7d19ab3188575045872f791a2e634e | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-anzac | What was ANZAC? | What was ANZAC?
Along with several other English colonies, Australia and New Zealand entered World War I shortly after the British Empire declared war on Germany in August 1914. Aussies and Kiwis volunteered to serve by the thousands, and most were shipped to Egypt for training in late 1914. The combined Oceanic force ... |
178ecebbaf5631f1892ec93b46b976b7 | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-operation-mincemeat | What was Operation Mincemeat? | What was Operation Mincemeat?
During World War II, British intelligence officers managed to pull off one of the most successful wartime deceptions ever achieved: Operation Mincemeat. In April 1943, a decomposing corpse was discovered floating off the coast of Huelva, in southern Spain. Personal documents identified him... |
9aff341919d6ac64f023960e169f4065 | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-operation-paperclip | What Was Operation Paperclip? | What Was Operation Paperclip?
As World War II was entering its final stages, American and British organizations teamed up to scour occupied Germany for as much military, scientific and technological development research as they could uncover.
Trailing behind Allied combat troops, groups such as the Combined Intelligenc... |
dcafd21c18aa05ded75d87fc90a82d19 | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518 | What was the dancing plague of 1518? | What was the dancing plague of 1518?
In July 1518, residents of the city of Strasbourg (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) were struck by a sudden and seemingly uncontrollable urge to dance. The hysteria kicked off when a woman known as Frau Troffea stepped into the street and began to silently twist, twirl and shake.... |
9b02bb415be386b9935728dff56c12f2 | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dreyfus-affair | What was the Dreyfus affair? | What was the Dreyfus affair?
A scandal that rocked France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Dreyfus affair involved a Jewish artillery captain in the French army, Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), who was falsely convicted of passing military secrets to the Germans. In 1894, after a French spy at the German Emba... |
95d7f41917a7728ebd3bfbbf057e4de1 | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-first-animal-in-space | What was the first animal in space? | What was the first animal in space?
Though far less famous than later non-human astronauts, the first animals in space were a group of fruit flies, launched to an altitude of 42 miles at the tip of a Nazi-designed V-2 rocket by American military scientists on February 20, 1947. The flies, members of the often-studied s... |
8c90a111593f09a033bf9b6a6d6b2b80 | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-oklahoma-land-rush | Remembering the Oklahoma Land Rush | Remembering the Oklahoma Land Rush
As the sun approached its zenith on April 22, 1889, an anxious army of 50,000 land-hungry settlers awaited their signal. Then, as the minute hand slipped over the hour hand at noontime, cannons boomed, pistols fired and bugles blared across the dusty plains. Horseback riders kicked th... |
222f0b97e812853f8a07d206ff6fe8ca | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-royal-african-company | What was the Royal African Company? | What was the Royal African Company?
In 1619, some 20 Africans arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, where they were purchased from Dutch privateers to aid in the English colony’s lucrative, labor-intensive cultivation of tobacco. As profits piled up and slavery spread through the American colonies, the British crown decided ... |
f5d360f1dcf5451c5d1599953ad2238d | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-saturday-night-massacre | What Was the Saturday Night Massacre? | What Was the Saturday Night Massacre?
One of the most controversial episodes of the Watergate scandal, the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre” came on October 20, 1973, when embattled President Richard Nixon fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox and accepted the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and D... |
e8d75e42316bdf1f0eb0263f66af5dfe | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-shot-heard-round-the-world | What was the “shot heard round the world”? | What was the “shot heard round the world”?
On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists. Early the next morning, the British reached Lexington, where approximately 70 minuteme... |
0d0a45f185fa33fca6ed2d8b7d3cf950 | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-sword-of-damocles | What was the sword of Damocles? | What was the sword of Damocles?
The famed “sword of Damocles” dates back to an ancient moral parable popularized by the Roman philosopher Cicero in his 45 B.C. book “Tusculan Disputations.” Cicero’s version of the tale centers on Dionysius II, a tyrannical king who once ruled over the Sicilian city of Syracuse during t... |
9ab035bae97d93443088576c379323d0 | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-winter-war | What was the Winter War? | What was the Winter War?
Less than two years before the Soviet Union faced off against Nazi Germany during World War II, it waged a bloody war with another adversary: the tiny nation of Finland. Russia’s feud with its Nordic neighbor began in 1939, when Soviet leader Joseph Stalin looked to expand his influence over Ea... |
617aed0cbfd5a6de77446600c63a5d88 | https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-xyz-affair | What was the XYZ Affair? | What was the XYZ Affair?
It might sound like something out of “Sesame Street” but the XYZ Affair was, in fact, a diplomatic incident between France and America in the late 18th century that led to an undeclared war at sea.
In 1793, France went to war with Great Britain while America remained neutral. Late the following... |
6854ef5f7893f3a0c3346caa31309de8 | https://www.history.com/news/whats-new-about-new-zealand | What’s New About New Zealand? | What’s New About New Zealand?
Many people may know that places like New York and New London are named after areas of England, but what about New Zealand? Just where is the original Zealand? For the answer we have to look to an early era of European exploration, and the original name for New York—New Amsterdam—gives us ... |
8c5bae66685db3080dfcb31848b5f8c9 | https://www.history.com/news/whats-the-real-history-of-black-friday | What’s the Real History of Black Friday? | What’s the Real History of Black Friday?
The first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was applied not to holiday shopping but to financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, worked together to buy u... |
133d9ec358cd2ab6016efb4dc410628e | https://www.history.com/news/when-america-despised-the-irish-the-19th-centurys-refugee-crisis | When America Despised the Irish: The 19th Century’s Refugee Crisis | When America Despised the Irish: The 19th Century’s Refugee Crisis
The refugees seeking haven in America were poor and disease-ridden. They threatened to take jobs away from Americans and strain welfare budgets. They practiced an alien religion and pledged allegiance to a foreign leader. They were bringing with them cr... |
1edc877b701ef91d46f56e290186f151 | https://www.history.com/news/when-did-the-age-of-man-begin | When Did the “Age of Man” Begin? | When Did the “Age of Man” Begin?
Scientists have been debating the Anthropocene theory for years, ever since some of them began arguing that urbanization, pollution, nuclear fallout and other marks of human existence on the planet should mark the start of a new epoch, or period of geologic time. In response to the ongo... |
187792c3331b96afdde3b464682819df | https://www.history.com/news/when-did-the-united-states-start-using-time-zones | When did the United States start using time zones? | When did the United States start using time zones?
For ages, people used the sun to determine what time it was where they were. Every community set its clocks to noon based on when the sun reached its highest position in the sky; as a result, when it was noon in Washington, D.C., the local time in New York City was alr... |
44d408aec23561e902730428e10014ac | https://www.history.com/news/when-early-humans-left-africa-tuberculosis-traveled-with-them | When Early Humans Left Africa, Tuberculosis Traveled With Them | When Early Humans Left Africa, Tuberculosis Traveled With Them
During the 18th and 19th centuries, in the swiftly industrializing countries of Europe and North America, tuberculosis–or the dreaded “consumption”–reached epic proportions. It was the leading cause of death among all age groups in the Western world until t... |
4beaade5a0d7768894b2e171afa1946c | https://www.history.com/news/when-edison-turned-night-into-day | When Edison Turned Night into Day | When Edison Turned Night into Day
As the remaining hours of 1879 dwindled to a precious few, a Pennsylvania Railroad special steamed into a remote New Jersey hamlet. Scores of men dressed in elegant evening wear and women wrapped in short fur jackets and silk gowns stepped off the nighttime train eager to set foot in t... |
0729919102f53e870787c8f4115d74f8 | https://www.history.com/news/when-hank-aaron-passed-the-babe-40-years-ago | When Hank Aaron Passed the Babe, 40 Years Ago | When Hank Aaron Passed the Babe, 40 Years Ago
As Hank Aaron strode to the plate, the sellout crowd of 53,775 packed into Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium rose as one. All across the United States, baseball fans stopped whatever they were doing and crouched a little closer to their glowing television screens. The umpire re... |
d81ace3ac9a2f827af1ed005009b90dd | https://www.history.com/news/when-ironclads-clashed-how-hampton-roads-changed-naval-warfare-forever | When Ironclads Clashed: How Hampton Roads Changed Naval Warfare Forever | When Ironclads Clashed: How Hampton Roads Changed Naval Warfare Forever
In early 1862, the Union and the Confederacy were locked in one of the most influential arms races of the Civil War. While their navies still relied on wooden ships, both sides had gambled on building revolutionary “ironclad” vessels that boasted s... |
098a78d51efe9f31bc977f25ba2ca2d3 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/11/texas-instruments-narrows-sales-earnings-guidance.html | Texas Instruments Narrows Sales, Earnings Guidance | Texas Instruments Narrows Sales, Earnings Guidance
Texas Instruments narrowed earnings and revenue guidance for the third quarter after U.S. markets closed Tuesday.
Texas InstrumentsL.m. Otero
The semiconductor company said it now expects quarterly earnings in a range of 49 cents to 53 cents a share, compared with prev... |
c8de3195a9aab3642f71420d5e656160 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/11/the-opec-scrum-and-what-the-ministers-think.html | Steve Sedgwick at the OPEC Meeting | Steve Sedgwick at the OPEC Meeting
Twickenham, Stade de France and now the OPEC Secretariat. All venues for some of the greatest rugby scrums of the Twenty First Century.
I’ve just emerged, somewhat dishevelled, from the media scrum (that's the polite phrase for it) that precedes the key meeting of OPEC ministers. This... |
61e96b125c3b407cbc617a139afa8bc4 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/11/trade-gap-narrows-in-july-to-592-billion.html | Trade Gap Narrows in July to $59.2 Billion | Trade Gap Narrows in July to $59.2 Billion
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed slightly in July as exports continued to grow this year at a stronger pace than imports, even though both categories set records, a Commerce Department report showed on Tuesday.
The monthly trade gap shrank slightly to $59.2 billion in July, fro... |
900e6b35bd07295a4bca4c23f8ea9886 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/11/trading-in-the-land-of-misfit-toys.html | On Monday, Disney (DIS) said it will independently test toys featuring its characters. Also Monday, Disney and Toys R Us increased its safety checks in stores following the numerous Mattel recalls this summer Are we setting up for a Christmas toy sales disaster?
VIDEO0:0000:00Tomorrow's Headlines #1
CNBC's Brian Shact... | |
fac9d3bfe4fc15022bcc5cffde5ea604 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/11/us-sees-less-energy-use-with-weaker-global-economy.html | U.S. Sees Less Energy Use with Weaker Global Economy | U.S. Sees Less Energy Use with Weaker Global Economy
World oil demand in the fourth quarter is expected to be 2 million barrels a day higher compared to levels a year earlier, but future oil use could be less if the global economy slows, the U.S. government's top energy forecasting agency warned on Tuesday.
World oil c... |
2e7c34de0b5215adddcb6bf918af0cd5 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/11/video-game-trades.html | Take Two (TTWO) reported quarterly earnings after the bell Monday. That combined with the upcoming release of Halo 3 and BioShock makes us think this is a perfect time to turn on the webcam and talk with a young man who is arguably the world’s most successful video gamer.
“Fatal1ty”(aka Johnathan Wendel) joins the pane... | |
bfd8ca71e923f225ee0f268c6e60386e | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/11/western-digital-boosts-forecast-on-higher-demand.html | Western Digital Boosts Forecast On Higher Demand | Western Digital Boosts Forecast On Higher Demand
Western Digital, the world's second-largest computer disk-drive maker, boosted its fiscal first-quarter earnings and revenue forecast on Monday due to improved demand, pricing and product mix.
Western Digital shares rose sharply following the increased guidance.
Western... |
1a6a25c57aadd30d91ef130bf9654fc5 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/11/z-zegna-show-one-hot-ticket-for-fashion-week.html | Holiday Central | Holiday Central
From Rapper L.L. Cool JJ to Saks CEO Steve Sadove to Jack Mitchell of the family-run Mitchell/Richards retailer-to-the-CEO-crowd stores and Gildo Zegna himself....the front rows at the Z Zegna show encapsulated the mix of sensibilities behind the younger Zegna house. In its second New York runway appear... |
0607a0e80f499a8ed77ad8428f105bc2 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/alaska-to-probe-recent-fires-at-bp-oil-fields.html | Alaska to Probe Recent Fires at BP Oil Fields | Alaska to Probe Recent Fires at BP Oil Fields
Alaska officials said Tuesday they were investigating BP's local unit due to a spate of fires at oilfield facilities, which come after two years of scrutiny over safety at BP's U.S. operations.
A flaring event Monday at the Lisburne field's production facility was the fourt... |
7a072fd1bd81e23ab5d4ffd6744d8fbb | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/alcoa-selling-entire-chalco-stake-for-up-to-2-billion.html | Alcoa Selling Entire Chalco Stake for Up to $2 Billion | Alcoa Selling Entire Chalco Stake for Up to $2 Billion
Alcoa said Wednesday it sold its stake in Aluminum Corp. of China (Chalco) for about $2 billion, a $1.8 billion gain on an investment that had yielded no real cooperation on the ground.
Alcoa , the world's largest aluminium maker, said it had bought the stake six y... |
393e862ac52965cceabe961d8d01a95f | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/asian-stocks-close-mixed-tokyo-slides-on-abes-resignation.html | Asian Stocks Close Mixed, Tokyo Slides on Abe's Resignation | Asian Stocks Close Mixed, Tokyo Slides on Abe's Resignation
Asian markets finished mixed Wednesday with Tokyo stocks closing lower on news that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had resigned.
The Nikkei 225Average closed lower on following a shock resignation announcement by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with the Nikkei down by ... |
1c6ce685db7f25ef1a112d0bc2fbc89b | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/barcap-pays-15-billion-fund-bailout-bill-report.html | BarCap Pays $1.5 Billion Fund Bailout Bill: Report | BarCap Pays $1.5 Billion Fund Bailout Bill: Report
Barclays Capital bailed out a highly-leveraged investment fund, hit by recent tightness in the credit market, with a $1.5-billion (738-million-pound) lifeline, London newspaper the Times reported Wednesday.
The structured investment vehicle (SIV), called Golden Key, ha... |
0d0aa926d534b137e5e1b71408466006 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/bigname-funds-get-burned-by-housing-stocks.html | Big-Name Funds Get Burned by Housing Stocks | Big-Name Funds Get Burned by Housing Stocks
The slump in housing stocks to new four-year lows is hurting some well-known investors who recently added home builders and housing-related stocks such as KB Home and Pulte Homes to their positions.
Value investors such as Legg Mason's Bill Miller and Harris Associates' Bill... |
8a9aba5e2abbd0159e96983119e0c264 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/biovail-case-the-reply-from-a-david-maris-lawyer.html | Biovail Case: The Reply From A David Maris Lawyer | Biovail Case: The Reply From A David Maris Lawyer
Yesterday, I blogged that messages to each of David Maris' lawyersseeking comment on Biovail "dropping" or "settling" its case against the former Bank of America Securities analyst had gone without a response. Well, this morning I got this email from one of his attorne... |
dd9ec4e0b80c04670b13a679bf7b3857 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/bombardier-recommends-grounding-aircraft.html | Bombardier Recommends Grounding Aircraft | Bombardier Recommends Grounding Aircraft
Canadian aircraft maker Bombardier is "highly recommending" that Q-400 turboprop planes that have made at least 10,000 flights be grounded for inspection after two emergency landings in northern Europe, Scandinavian Airlines said Wednesday.
The announcement came after a Scandina... |
dc9672c7e0f2ad626ff19f2da3e14abf | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/broken-baby-boomers.html | In Wednesday’s Sea Change, Pete Najarian brings you a trade so good it will leave you weak in the knees.
Najarian explains that 78 million Baby Boomers are nearing retirement age and consequently the market for orthopedic devices promises to see explosive growth. He adds demand for knee replacement will soar 673% by 20... | |
000afff297931d48361e7fc25914812e | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/burger-king-to-add-healthier-menu-items.html | Burger King to Add Healthier Menu Items | Burger King to Add Healthier Menu Items
Burger King pledged Wednesday to offer healthier fast-food items for children under 12, with plans to sell and market flame-broiled Chicken Tenders and apples cut to resemble thick-cut french fries.
Burger King Holdings, the world's second largest hamburger chain, said it has set... |
1d0d7b89b170d6eae334858a07a6f681 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/calvin-klein-show-thanks-but-next-time-ill-pass.html | Holiday Central | Holiday Central
Calvin KleinSource: calvinklein.com
I have never gotten up and just walked out on a fashion show. On Tuesday, I RAN out of the Calvin Klein collection even before the runway show began. But it had nothing to do with the clothes.
No joke--the line for the Calvin Klein runway show was two blocks long. I... |
995908f39995d0ba5684bc14f764dc98 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/capital-one-ceo-mortgage-struggles-may-spark-recession.html | Capital One CEO: Mortgage Struggles May Spark Recession | Capital One CEO: Mortgage Struggles May Spark Recession
The difficulties that many Americans face in making mortgage payments are unlikely to spread to credit cards, but could help push the economy into recession, the chief of one of the largest card issuers said.
Capital One Financial Chief Executive Richard Fairbank ... |
c1cd66c87e050a7e4593cf88c67b5760 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/chinese-retail-sales-surge-partly-on-inflation.html | Chinese Retail Sales Surge, Partly on Inflation | Chinese Retail Sales Surge, Partly on Inflation
China's retail sales growth surged in August to its quickest pace in more than three years, beating forecasts, but analysts said the jump largely reflected stronger inflation, not necessarily quicker underlying growth.
Retail sales, which are tracked in nominal terms, gre... |
48ac311ee42f911cc60ddd819363fa64 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/citigroup-says-subprime-business-looks-pretty-good.html | Citigroup Says Subprime Business Looks 'Pretty Good' | Citigroup Says Subprime Business Looks 'Pretty Good'
Citigroup'ssubprime mortgage business is not suffering the way some rivals' businesses have suffered, and "actually looks pretty good," according to Steven Freiberg, chief executive of the largest U.S. bank's North American consumer operations.
Speaking Wednesday at ... |
abe6898586c582eb7abd8e384be8bdca | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/doubleduty-stocks.html | Tight ends perform double duty on the football field: playing catch-and-receive offense and providing blocking for the running game. Tight-end stocks are the same way, Cramer said. They have an upside, but also deliver a steady stream of income in the form of dividends to protect against the downside.
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c8ed5683d741aafc33b23d248c486a5c | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/ecb-lends-banks-104-billion.html | ECB Lends Banks $104 Billion | ECB Lends Banks $104 Billion
The European Central Bank lent commercial banks 75 billion euros ($104 billion) in three-month funds Wednesday, 25 billion euros more than in a previous operation last month, the bank said on its Web site.
The average interest rate paid was 4.5%, slightly lower than in a previous auction fo... |
1cfc3b39df6829b9e14fd4df632c7ea7 | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/eds-offers-retirement-to-12000-us-workers.html | EDS Offers Retirement to 12,000 U.S. Workers | EDS Offers Retirement to 12,000 U.S. Workers
The entrance to Electronic Data System headquarters building in Plano, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005. On Tuesday EDS posted a narrow third-quarter profit and reported that new contract signings, an indicator of future revenue, nearly doubled from a year ago. (AP Photo/Ron Hef... |
3d4bc505cd72ba0f7cde52111afa1bfa | https://www.cnbc.com/2007/09/12/european-stocks-close-higher-uncertainties-remain.html | European Stocks Close Higher, Uncertainties Remain | European Stocks Close Higher, Uncertainties Remain
European stocks closed higher on Wednesday, but uncertainty about the strength of the global economy still lingered and a series of political surprises caught investors off guard.
U.S. shares opened lower, despite a strong rally Tuesday, and Asian stocks were mixed wit... |
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