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History

Charles McKim recognized Stanford White's exceptional talent and urged his business partner to bring White into their architectural firm, valuing his artistic capabilities highly.

Rosebud, the iconic red sled from Citizen Kane, sold for $14.75 million, becoming the second most expensive movie memorabilia after the Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz.

In the Middle Ages, Christians believed in fallen angels, supernatural beings having sex with humans, supported by Church Fathers like Tertullian and Augustine.

Before it found its home in New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty's head was on display at the 1878 Paris World's Fair. The statue has a rich history and was gifted by France to symbolize friendship and freedom.

Often a new road - not an old one - deceives the traveller. So too a new comrade - not an old one - deceives a comrade. Stick with those who've stood the test of time.

"Luthuli reached the store by 9:30am and set off again to check on his sugar cane fields about half an hour later. This much is not in dispute."

Journalism proved again what a great competitor and super horse he is, rallying from next to last on the backstretch to win the $1-million Haskell Stakes.

Glenview, a 19th-century seasonal home built for millionaire banker John Bond Trevor and his family, has been painstakingly restored by the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York.

Historical fencing, or Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA), seeks to recreate the combat styles of the Middle Ages to the early modern era, emphasizing realism in training.

The enmity between Catholics and Protestants, known as the two confessions, had been one of the organising principles of European life for over four centuries.

Comtesse Germaine de Renty recounted how typical days in Ravensbruck began with stepping over the corpses of deceased friends, highlighting the horrific conditions in the camp.

Ellsworth recognized historical parallels between the divided United States of today and the 1850s and 1860s, prompting him to explore Lincoln's assassination as a key story.

In the 1930s, Ulam, Banach, and Steinhaus gathered at the Scottish Cafe in Lviv, discussing and documenting their mathematical ideas on marble tabletops.

A team of archaeologists from Baylor University discovered a 7th century B.C. sealed Etruscan chamber tomb in the San Giuliano necropolis, revealing remarkable finds.

Each weekday, Ray Hamel creates a unique set of challenging questions on a specific topic that allows users to test their knowledge daily.

The film, A Huey P. Newton Story, based on his 1966 creation of the BPP's "A 10-Point Plan for Social Reform," went on to win multiple awards. Fredrika Newton realized that this invaluable cache of materials needed to be preserved and archived.

The Kedermister Library, founded around 1613, is a historical treasure located in St Mary's Church, featuring over 300 books, including an 11th-century manuscript on loan to the British Library.

The heat was 10,000 times hotter than the sun's surface, completely vaporizing instrument-containing balloons tethered to the tower. The tower disintegrated as well.

Histories often lack the sensory experiences of our ancestors' worlds—sights, sounds, tastes, pains, and euphorias—that provided depth and vibrancy to their lives.

The excavation in Tuam, which has begun, will uncover the remains of about 800 unidentified infants and young children buried in mass graves for over 65 years.

The ancient Greeks constructed temples starting with mud brick and thatched roofs, evolving over time to more durable materials like stone starting in the seventh century BC.

The drugstore beetle, also known as the bread beetle, is often found among dried foodstuffs like grains, flour and spices. But they also are attracted to the gelatin and starch-based adhesives found in books.

Emma of Normandy was a key figure in English politics for nearly 50 years, serving as wife to King Aethelred the Unready and later to King Cnut.

"So much misery, mud, murder, was nowhere else compressed in so small a space. The ground reeked with gas: was polluted with dead and the debris of a hundred battles."

Excavators were used to excavate the original gap of the ancient Great Wall into a large gap, so that the excavator can pass through the gap, which caused irreversible damage to the integrity of the Ming Great Wall and the safety of cultural relics.

Throughout medieval times, elephants were recognized for their remarkable traits such as intelligence, memory, and loyalty, often highlighted in bestiaries of the era.

The CSMVS has retrofitted three antiquated public buses as mobile mini-museums, plying historiography on the chaotic highways of the world's most populous country. The objective, according to the CSMVS curators, is to engage citizens in an evolving understanding of history that reflects contemporary values.

The timepiece used on the HMS Beagle during Darwin's voyage has been placed under an export bar, allowing time for a UK gallery to purchase it.

In March 1985, I was likely one of the first American tourists to visit Argentina after a military junta relinquished power. Raúl Alfonsín, a human-rights lawyer, was leading the country's first democratically elected government since the early 1970s.

Mitchell's work notably chronicles the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, focusing on the harrowing aftermath and consequences of these historical events.

It took him six days to make it through the forest, running for his life amid the chaos caused by an artillery attack and losing sight of his family.