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One of the most important conflicts before WWI ended with a US-mediated peace treaty, projecting American power in Asia.
Karl Marx famously declared, "Religion is the opium of the people." But why was he so against it?
In an unlikely turn of events, legendary dancer Josephine Baker became a spy for the French Resistance during World War II.
A victim of a horrific medical practice, what happened to Rosemary Kennedy?
The Battle of Alamance in 1771 marked the end of a brief uprising in North Carolina on the eve of the American Revolution known as the Regulator War.
Canada adopted the current version of its flag in 1965 to remove references to its history as a British colony and promote Canadian national identity.
The Hanseatic League was a medieval network of merchant guilds, market towns, and cities that dominated Northern Europe.
From railways to space stations, the Soviet Union built monumental feats of engineering over the course of nearly seventy years. What did they build, and why?
