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# Age of Discovery
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10 Remarkable Fraudulent Discoveries and Inventions that Shook the World
New discoveries and scientific inventions can bring the discoverer or inventor great wealth, fame, celebrity, prestige or all the preceding. Thomas Edison is a prime example. Combining creativity, self-promotion, and business savvy,…
American History
Mother Nature’s Fury: 10 Devastating Historical Hurricanes, 1502-1780
Hurricane: a term likely derived from Spanish’s “huracan.” The Spanish word, in turn, shares roots with Caribbean tribal words for…
General
Historians Continue to Debate the Origins of This Famous Explorer
Christopher Columbus’s accomplishments are renowned throughout the world. For generations, the mnemonic “in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue” has…
Archaeology
Miners Hit the Jackpot and Found Millions Worth of Gold on a 500-Year-Old Shipwreck
Treasure hunters dream of finding one of the many piles of hidden riches buried around the world. The notion of…
General
This Day In History: Columbus Discovers America (1492)
On this day in 1492, Christopher Columbus sights land in the modern West Indies. He is the first European to…