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by Elizabeth A. Fenn, Elizabeth Anne Fenn
"On Sunday, July 2, 1775, a much-older George Washington stepped out of a carriage in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to take ...
by Jonathan B. Tucker
In a maximum-security facility in Atlanta, the world's most dangerous prisoner sits in solitary confinement, awaiting ex...
by James Giblin, James Cross Giblin
Early in 1347, a mysterious disease attacked people living near the Black Sea in what is now southern Ukraine.
by Jennifer Lee Carrell
EARLY in December 1694, an assassin emerged from the streets of London to sneak westward across the park, slip unseen th...
by Donald R. Hopkins
ELIZABETH I HAD BEEN at Hampton Court Palace southwest of London for nearly a month.