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The Incredible Reason the Choctaw and the Irish Have a Special Bond

Only 14 years after most of the Choctaw people were forcibly relocated in the Trail…

Here are 2,500 Museums You Can Visit Virtually Thanks to Google

You can experience the magic of museums from across the world, all from home. Google…

The Teddy Bear that Saved a Family from the Holocaust

When the Butzke family fled Austria in 1940, they sewed valuables into their son's teddy…

Ronald McNair, the Boy Who Refused to Leave the Library

Ronald McNair was one of the astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger when it exploded…

Isaac Newton Worked from Home During the Plague and ‘Discovered’ Gravity

Just like people all over the world are working from home to prevent the spread…

Susanna Salter Was Added to the Ballot as a Joke, But Won Two-Thirds of the Vote

Susanna Salter was added to the ballot as a joke, but she ended up winning…

10 Things You Must Know about the Extraordinary George Sand

George Sand has been described as a “cigar-toting sexual outlaw”. A French writer who wrote…

10 of Mark Twain’s Sickest Burns

Here are Mark Twain's sickest burns. Illustrated Let's just get to it, shall we? 1.…

How the Secret “Lady Lovers” Network Gave Black LGBTQ Women Freedom to Love

In 1920, a newspaper reported a salacious story with the headline “Have we a New…

How Teddy Roosevelt Beat the Racists and Saved Minnie Cox’s Legacy

Theodore Roosevelt and Minnie Cox No one could have said that Minnie Cox was anything…