Category: History
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Joan Ruth Bader was born on March 15th, 1933. Her older sister died when she was only six from a disease called Meningitis, which causes inflammation in the membranes protecting her brain. Her father was a Jewish immigrant from Russia, and her mother was born in New York to Austrian Jewish parents. During elementary school, […]
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The History of Italy
Italy is a peninsula, mostly surrounded by the Adriatic, Ligurian, and Tyrrhenian seas. Italy is bordering modern day France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia to the south. Italy also includes several islands, most notably Sardinia and Sicily. Italy has some of the most beautiful varying landscape, with glacier carved valleys, tectonically unstable areas, to the south […]
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The Great Pyramids of Giza
The Great Pyramid is located in the Giza complex, close to the Nile river in Egypt. It was the first pyramid in the Giza complex to be built, with construction starting at circa 2550 BCE and ending at about 2530 BCE. These pyramids were built before the wheel, so it would have taken shorter had […]
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was a famous statesman in the newly formed United States Of America, as well as scientist, author and inventor of the franklin stove. He paved the way for the newly formed USA to grow. Benjamin Franklin was a veracious reader for his entire life, and enjoyed reading many fascinating books. At the young […]
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History Of Slavery In The New World
From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, in the new settlement of Jamestown, many of the colonists in the New World were living in prosperity for the first time. Many people in the New World had seized opportunities in farming and agriculture. The leading prospect being tobacco farming, which was starting to get big. […]
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Marco Polo
The exact time of Marco Polo’s birth is unknown, but we currently know that it was sometime around 1254 in Venice. His father, Niccolo Polo, was a wealthy merchant who had left Marco’s pregnant mother to go and travel Asia and find opportunity with his brother, Maffeo Polo. Marco Polo’s mother died soon after having […]
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Leonardo Da Vinci: Part 1
Leonardo Da Vinci was a famous painter and renaissance man, creating the fabulous work of art known as the Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings and best paintings in the world. Leonardo was also an amazing sculptor, scientist and inventor, who invented many inventions that were way ahead of his time. He is […]
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The California Gold Rush and the “Forty-Niners”
The California Gold Rush was a historic event and one of the biggest gold rushes in history. The thinly populated towns in California eventually became densely populated, and everybody saw opportunity. The people who made the most money off the California Gold Rush were not the miners, they were in fact the merchants and traders […]
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How Central America Got Their Independence
The Central Americas have a long and interesting history. The countries of Central America include Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemela and Nicaragua. The rich history of this fascinating continent all started when Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain. Over many different trips, Columbus “discovered” and colonized many parts of Central America. The first […]
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The Oregon Treaty
The Oregon Treaty is one of the biggest treaties that the United States and the United Kingdom ever signed. It happened in 1846 and settled out the territory tensions between the two countries as well as providing the land that the United States needed to achieve their big goals on westward expansion. This treaty doubled […]
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Sam Zemmuray and the History of the Banana Trade
Sam Zemmuray, also known as Sam the Banana Man, was the ruler of the banana industry for decades. Zemmuray’s parents were poor farmers in Russia before Zemmuray made his way to Central America. He was no joke though, standing at over six feet high and made of only skin and bone. A good businessman, but […]
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History of Costa Rica
Costa Rica is a small country bordering Panama and Nicaragua with a rich history, it all started when Cristopher Colombus set sail on the Americas and after visiting a few other areas, he landed in Costa Rica on the pacific side. While there, many of the indigenous people offered him lots of expensive gifts. He […]
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