Tag Archives: History
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In 1911, Marie Curie’s affair with married physicist Paul Langevin sparked public outrage. Despite…
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Andrew Carnegie, a self-made steel magnate, gave away nearly 90% of his fortune—about $350…
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Sri Lanka became an island in 1480 when a cyclone destroyed the land bridge, known as Adam’s Bridge,…
Fire, Ice, and Plutonium
Lasting from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Cold War was among the most dangerous periods in all of human history. For over four and half decades, the communist east and the capitalist west eyed each other suspiciously across the Iron Curtain,… Read More »