Stuff you Missed in History Class
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Pt. 2
Rosa's arrest for breaking bus segregation laws catalyzed the Montgomery ...
Rosa's arrest for breaking bus segregation laws catalyzed the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the keystones in the American Civil Rights Movement. It was widely covered in the national media, which brought more attention to the struggle for equal rights.
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Pt. 1
Anyone who has ever heard about the Civil Rights Movement ...
Anyone who has ever heard about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States is sure to know that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. But that's but a tiny sliver of her life story.
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Crown Prince Sado of Korea
Crown Prince Sado of Korea -- sometimes called Korea's "Coffin ...
Crown Prince Sado of Korea -- sometimes called Korea's "Coffin King" -- has been described as insane, depraved and sadistic, but when you examine his short life, it’s more complicated than a list of acts of savagery (though there are plenty of those).
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Pueblo Revolt
History is written by the victors. But one big exception ...
History is written by the victors. But one big exception to that conventional wisdom is the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, in which Native Americans rose up against Spanish colonists and missionaries at the turn of the 17th century.
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Avicenna
You may never have heard of him, but Avicenna was ...
You may never have heard of him, but Avicenna was one of the first, and probably the most influential, Islamic philosopher-scientists. He’s listed among the great philosophers in Dante’s Inferno and is mentioned in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
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Embalming and Mummification Rituals of Ancient Egypt
So how did Ancient Egyptians actually embalm their dead? Thanks ...
So how did Ancient Egyptians actually embalm their dead? Thanks in large part to Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, we have some great descriptions of what happened to the deceased.
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The Sinking of the S.S. Arctic
When the S.S. Arctic joined the Collins line fleet in ...
When the S.S. Arctic joined the Collins line fleet in the 1850s, it was by all accounts a glorious ship. But in 1854, the steamer collided with another ship in a fog, and the resulting panic led to the deaths of most of the passengers.
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The Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings is often boiled it down to ...
The Battle of Hastings is often boiled it down to a sentence: The Normans invaded Britain in 1066, and their victory ended the Anglo-Saxon phase of English history. But of course, that brief description really doesn’t do the event justice.
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The Explosive Career of Antoine Levoisier
Antoine-Laurent Levoisier was a chemist, biologist, geologist, physiologist, and economist. ...
Antoine-Laurent Levoisier was a chemist, biologist, geologist, physiologist, and economist. But at the end of the day, he’s most often referred to as the father of modern chemistry. He also was smack dab in the middle of the French Revolution.
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Listener Mail: FAQ Edition
Time for something completely different! There are a few questions ...
Time for something completely different! There are a few questions that we get asked over and over. Today, we answer four of the most-common queries posed to us in our listener mail.
