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Fact Check: Unraveling the Connection Between Halley's Comet and Mark Twain's Birth and Death
Snopes via Yahoo News· 3 months agoSnopes compilation/Public Domain Claim: American author Mark Twain was born and died on the days...
Let's Debunk Some "Facts": People Are Sharing The Lies They Were Taught In School, And Some Of These...
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSchool is, like, the one place we go to and expect that the things we're learning are definitely...
Hoard of 122 Anglo-Saxon pennies could fetch £180,000 at auction
Press Association News via AOL· 3 months agoA hoard of 122 Anglo-Saxon pennies, whose owner may have died fighting in the Battle of Hastings,...
Anna's Thinking Cap: The Battle of Waterloo and its historical and literary aftermath
Iowa City Press-Citizen via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoIt is common knowledge that at “Waterloo, Napoleon did surrender.” And the fact that the ABBA song...
The last battle of the Revolution was off India in 1783
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFrench ships The main parties of the American Revolution were, obviously, the Continental and...
The 110 best true or false quiz questions for an easier take on games night
Cosmo via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe best true or false questions for an easy quizGetty Images Quizzing – whether at a dinner party,...
The Dramatic Story of the Very First Westminster Abbey Coronation
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen King Charles is crowned on May 6, the service will be broadcast live across the world, with...
Why one of the world’s biggest banks is headed to one of the world’s smallest countries
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMammoth Charlotte-based Bank of America is expanding in Europe and coming to one of the world’s...
Stephen Stills on the romance that drove a classic and the making of his first solo album
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 1 month agoStephen Stills in 1971. January 1970. Stephen Stills is about to become of the highest paid rock...
5 of the rarest astronomical events—and when you'll next see them
Stacker via AOL· 2 months agoHeritage Space/Heritage Images // Getty Images Humans have been looking to the sky to make sense of...