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A Timetable of The Most Important Events of The American Civil War
247wallst.com· 24 hours agoThe American Civil War, fought from 1861 to 1865, was a defining moment in this nation’s history...
NASA supercomputer releases video of an astronaut falling inside a black hole
TweakTown· 8 hours agoThanks to a NASA supercomputer, we now have an accurate visualization of what you would see if you...
Fact Check: California Was Supposedly Named After Fictional Isle of Black Women Who Kept Griffins as...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe name "California" first appeared in 1562, when Royal Cartographer Diego Gutiérrez mapped the...
No charges for SC 14-year-old who shot and killed knife-wielding neighbor, sheriff says
The Rock Hill Herald· 1 hour agoA South Carolina teen who shot a neighbor who was chasing with a knife will not be charged because the killing appears to be justified, Lancaster County sheriff officials said Tuesday. The fatal ...
‘The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt’ spotlights 5 women who ‘created a president’
The Fargo Forum· 7 hours agoEd O’Keefe’s original literary ambition was to write a book about Theodore Roosevelt’s formative...
Did a Notre Dame football coach invent Mother's Day? One local man says Frank Hering did.
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoOne letter said, “Every humble, sincere and just person knows not anyone in Indiana ever had...
Civil rights leaders blast Supreme Court at their doorstep
The Hill via Yahoo News· 4 days agoCivil rights leaders from around the nation gathered in Washington, D.C., Friday to protest book...
39 Things to Do in the DC Area This Week and Weekend
Washingtonian· 17 hours agoIlluminAsia Festival, NGA Nights, and EU Open House
Listen | How Buffalo Bill shaped the West – and the Western
Crosscut· 4 days agoKnute Berger shares how the myth shaped our idea of the frontier. You’ve probably heard of Buffalo...
‘No Longer a Matter of Film Versus Digital’: What Film Preservation Means Today
Indiewire via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMartin Scorsese and archivists from the Library of Congress, UCLA, MOMA, and elsewhere tell...