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Thanksgiving Turkey with all the sides

Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?

Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint

8 of the Largest Empires in History

A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000

14 Tough Questions Answered

The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)

11 Banned Books Through Time

Santa Claus flying in his sleigh, christmas, reindeer

Was Santa Claus a Real Person?

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England

Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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Frederick W. Taylor

American inventor and engineer

Gilbreth, Lillian Evelyn

Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth

American psychologist and engineer

Frank Bunker Gilbreth

American engineer