History
Historical events, civilizations, and significant moments
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History
Low cost naval mines can sink ships worth fifty thousand times their price
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History
Finland's first major railway was built across frozen tundra using imported British iron
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Ancient missionaries once blended pagan solar symbols to create the Celtic cross
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History
Before lightbulbs existed city streets were illuminated by giant electric arc lamps
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History
The first professional female astronomer was only four feet tall
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History
A 17th-century dam failure released tons of toxic mercury into a colonial city
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The machine that revolutionized the cotton industry was invented in just ten days
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The first life-saving dose of penicillin required filtering hundreds of liters of mold
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The victims of Pompeii were preserved by a cloud of ash moving at three hundred miles per hour
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Ancient missionaries spread a version of Christianity to China over a millennium ago
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The first talking movies were rejected by Hollywood studios because of expensive equipment
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A single massive snowstorm forced American cities to move their power lines underground
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The island of Bermuda was settled after an admiral intentionally crashed his sinking ship
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The first time a president used the radio to calm a nation's fears
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The collapse of a California dam taught the world vital lessons in safety
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