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The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 permanently shattered Spain's image of invincibility and boosted England’s rise.
In the years after WWII, several Central and Eastern European governments that had experienced Nazi occupation expelled most of their ethnic German populations.
The European unicorn and the East Asian kirin are often conflated, but these mythical creatures have completely different origins.
In North Carolina, white supremacy was delivered a resounding blow in 1958, courtesy of local members of the Lumbee Tribe.
Christmas of 1945 brought many awful suspicions regarding the mysterious events that surrounded the fate of the Sodder children.
Viking settlements, Polynesian sailors, Siberian traders, and continent spanning trade networks linked the Americas at the margins years before Columbus’ voyage.
French philosopher Voltaire famously roasted the Holy Roman Empire as neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
Many thousands of years before Europeans arrived in the Americas, Ice Age migrants from the east populated the New World.
