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Pu Yi, the last emperor of Qing Dynasty and the former head of Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo during World War II Puyi was only two…
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Family with Their Covered Wagon During the Great Western Migration, in Loup Valley, Nebraska – 1886 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on May 20,…
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Why Shouldn’t You Get A PhD In History?
I am a PhD student in medieval history in the U.S. My remarks concern History PhD programs in the U.S. If you think this is…
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What Was It Like To Fight Americans During World War 2?
If you were a German fighting Americans at the start of Operation Torch in Tunisia, you’d have a mixed view of American soldiers. They were certainly…
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Around 19th century egyptomania was so strong in europe that rich tourists would bring mummies from Egypt to unwrap them in parties. Mummy unrollings were only…
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Wojtek the Bear, adopted by the 22nd Transport Company’s Artillery Division in the Polish II Corps in 1942, after an Iranian boy traded the bear for…
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The O’Halloran sisters, armed with poles and boiling water, fended off the officers evicting their family during the Irish Land War, 1889 The Second Irish Land…
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Adolf Hitler informs Czech President Emil Hácha of the imminent German invasion of Czechoslovakia on March 15, 1939 in Berlin. Hácha suffered a heart attack during…
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One of the Hunter Brothers doing some mid-air mechanical checkups on their Stinson SM-1 Detroiter during their 23-day-long flight without landing in 1930 Ninety years ago…
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4 people from the same town who fought in different wars. The eyes of four men, captured in a single photograph, tell a story of approximately…