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Children’s playground in 1912 If it seems like today’s kids have gotten “softer” compared to the kids decades ago, perhaps it’s because playgrounds have gotten softer…
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What Was It Like To Go Through A Gas Attack In World War 1
Arthur Empey was an American living in New Jersey when war consumed Europe in 1914. Enraged by the sinking of the Lusitania and loss of the…
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What Was Life Like For a Jester In The Medieval Era?
(art: Stańczyk by Jan Matejko) Being a true Jester was very hard work. You had to be a one-man entertainment machine. One had to be able…
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What Was Life Like During The Holodomor: The Great Famine Of Ukraine 1932 to 1933
It is known as the Holodomor. The communist induced famine killed up to 3.9 million people between 1932-33 in Ukraine alone. The reasons for the famine…
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How Did Germany De-Radicalize Its People After The Fall of The Nazi Party?
(Force confrontation: German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945.) The process of denazification and the trials of various war criminals in Germany was enormous.…
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How Did The United States Get So Powerful?
Geography Size: It is the 3rd largest in area and population. The two countries bigger than the US – Russia and Canada have way too much unusable…
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Rita Hayworth, 1941. This was one of the most popular pinup photos among American soldiers and sailors during World War II. Four months after Hayworth’s photo…
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Mary Ann Bevan, after developing acromegaly, toured the sideshow circuit as “The Ugliest Woman in the World”, November 1919 Mary Ann Webster was born in 1874…
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I’m a German soldier in 1939. What are my chances to survive until 1945?
By the end of the war the Germans had 12.5 million men under arms. Over 4 million died during the war. Survival depended upon where you…
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Young “Teddy Boys” somewhere in England, 1956 In 1953, a sweeping trend in fashion took over Britain’s teen boys. It was an adaptation of Edwardian romanticism;…