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The vast majority of the Japanese city's hospitals were also rendered non-functioning by the nuclear bomb.

State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford is urging education officials in Illinois to amend requirements for public school history curriculums.

The famous picnic happened in June of 1939, when the Royals visited the Roosevelts in America.

Chinese Communist Party apparatchiks are engineering a dangerous internal suppression campaign.

Built as three tunnels over several decades, workers on the Lincoln Tunnel suffered from high pressure conditions and deadly accidents.

In his Fourth of July speech, President Donald Trump said: "Americans are the people who pursued our Manifest Destiny across the ocean, into the uncharted wilderness, over the tallest mountains, and then into the skies and even into the stars."

The primary arguments against getting rid of Confederate and other racist symbols reveal not only an ignorance of the past but a denial of the present.

The rapper and CEO have shown mutual admiration each other publicly many times over the past five years.

The new movement to remove all homages to troubled leaders fails to account for the complexity of human nature.

If you're wondering how the chocolate chip cookie became America's favorite dessert, here's a detailed look into its invention.

The reason why Washington, D.C. isn't a state can be traced back to the American Revolution before Congress had a permanent home.

"To understand the statue, we must recognize our country's enduring legacy of racial discrimination," reads a statement from the American Museum of Natural History.

Despite first being celebrated as early as 1908, Father's day had a long journey to becoming a national holiday.

A descendant of one of the women who portrayed Aunt Jemima spoke out against the company's decision to rebrand the pancake mix and syrup products.

The removal of the statue came after an 11-1 vote by the Historic Properties Advisory Commission on Friday.

Grandma Macnamara and George Herman Ruth apparently docked their boats next to each other in New York, and were friends.

The VA had initially refused to remove three gravestones from German prisoners of war containing symbols and praise for the Nazi regime.

Catherine the Great lived a fascinating and detailed life, which may be hard to replicate in Hulu's upcoming series.

The founder had a very different idea of the holiday.

"My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was."

There are many disputed origins of the pretzel, which symbolizes a number of different things throughout the world.

This marketing plan backfired big time.

The Russian Foreign Ministry chastised the U.S. State Department after failing to mention Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in a Facebook post Sunday marking April 12 as the International Day of Human Space Flight.

"In the past year I have experienced 'high strangeness' phenomena that I never believed in," the ranch's data scientist told Newsweek.

Those looking for old cures to the novel coronavirus pandemic can start by trapping a spider in a nutshell.

Donkey polo was a popular game in ancient China among some sections of society.

The color green wasn't always associated with the holiday.

Associated with bad luck, the date has certainly had its fair-share of spooky occurrences, dating back to the middle ages.

The fear of Friday and the number 13 go hand-in-hand.

The artifacts are thought to belong to Pharaoh Thutmose II, whose rule was short-lived and preceded that of his more famous wife and step-sister, Hatshepsut.