The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new…

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IN 1985 two boys from Darndale, Dublin, Keith Byrne (10) and Noel Murray (13), made headline news around the world after hopping on a Dart and ending up in New York, escaping authorities in three countries in the process. Keith Byrne said that he and Noel…

A new Gallup poll shows that 40 percent of American adults comply to a strict view of creationism, in which God brought humans into existence within the last 10,000 years. More encouragingly, a record number of Americans now say God had absolutely nothing…

Dig into archaeological evidence that reveals the earliest signs of human habitation dating back 19,000 years at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter.

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The production designer who created the code for The Matrix's virtual reality finally reveals its secret.

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We owe those who lost their lives on that day an ongoing discussion of how and why these events happened and what we can do to prevent recurrences in the future, including promoting changes in building design for occupant safety, writes Gregory Havel.

In 1993, Tupac received a letter from the parents of a dying boy, named Joshua. They said it was Joshua’s last wish to meet Tupac. Tupac flew to Maryland to meet Joshua and took him to a basketball game. Soon after Joshua’s death Tupac renamed his publishing…

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THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE DEBATE OVER SLAVERY When Thomas Jefferson included a passage attacking slavery in his draft of the Declaration of Independence it initiated the most intense debate among the delegates gathered at Philadelphia in the…

Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian, actor, radio host, writer, and activist.

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Going into the weekend where Americans look back at the last 15 years since the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and […]

Majority say they saved work, collected belongings or visited the bathroom before fleeing World Trade Centre

The oldest traces of human occupation in Paris, discovered in 2008 near the Rue Henri-Farman in the 15th arrondissement, are human bones and evidence of an encampment of hunter-gatherers dating from about 8000 BC, during the Mesolithic period.
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