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The Renaissance of the 15th century led the Reformation of the 16th century, followed by the Scientific Revolution -- a period of increased understanding in the fields of astronomy,...

President Nixon, in his last official address, August 8, 1974, left a cryptic warning of the Middle East "... so that the cradle of civilization will not...

A "Father of Chemistry" wanted to evangelize America ... and warned of the end of the world! Robert Boyle was born January 25, 1627. He studied Sir Francis Bacon, René Descartes, and...

Booker T. Washington was born in a slave hut on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia, APRIL 5, 1856.He taught himself to read and write,...

Beginning in the late 700s, Vikings from Scandinavia, called Danes and Swedes, began raiding the coasts and up the rivers of England and Europe. Since they were from "the north," they were referred to as Norse...

Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee Institute, delivered an address at Memorial Hall in Columbus, Ohio, May 24, 1900. The description was recorded in The Booker T. Washington...

By the time of the Civil War, the slave population in the United States had grown to four million. The two major political parties in...

"Doctor Livingstone, I presume," stated New York Herald reporter Henry Stanley on November 10, 1871, as he met David Livingstone on the banks of Africa's Lake Tanganyika. Dr. Livingstone was the internationally renowned missionary...

By the time of the Civil War, the United States was a nation deeply divided over the issue of slavery.

The United States and Britain launched air and sea strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen in response to the group's attacks on ships in the Red Sea.