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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Twelve days after two girls began to behave strangely and complain of pinpricks on their arms, Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba, a Caribbean slave woman,…
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March 10 241 BCE – The First Punic War Comes to an End with the Battle of the Aegates Islands
by Vishul MalikAfter 23 years at war, Carthage and Rome — the two powers of the Mediterranean Sea — met for one final conflict in the First Punic War. Cutting through the…
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Tensions, which were simmering in Tibet following China’s occupation of the region in October 1950 flared up and on March 10, 1959, the Tibetan Uprising or the Tibetan Rebellion began.…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the wake of World War I, the United States took drastic steps to isolate itself from other nations and avoid entry into another global conflict.…
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March 11, 1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev took over as the new general secretary and leader of the Soviet Union
by Vishul MalikOn March 11, 1985, the 54-year-old Gorbachev took over the post following the death of Konstantin Chernenko. Under the leadership of Gorbachev, the Soviet society and foreign policy underwent a…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Three decades after conquistadors first arrived in the New World to build colonies and extract wealth, a small contingent of Spanish soldiers under the command of…
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Arriving home at 3:15am was hardly a new experience for Kitty Genovese. As manager of Ev’s Eleventh Hour Sports Bar in Hollis, part of the Queens borough in New York…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the town of Ulm, a picturesque city on the Danube River in southern Germany, one of the world’s most brilliant minds and famous faces was…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Just days before a planned expedition to Parthia and weeks after being named “dictator for life,” Julius Caesar lay dying on the floor of the Roman…
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Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the middle of a flat stretch of farmland 40 miles southeast of Boston, physicist Robert Goddard gave hope to starry-eyed dreamers everywhere on March 16,…