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The Year with No Summer was a Brutal Shock for Half the World in 1816
A strange thing happened to the northern hemisphere in the summer months of 1816, the first full year of peace in Europe since the outbreak of the French Revolution almost thirty years…
The Soviet Union’s Great Famine was one of History’s Greatest Man-Made Disasters
The Soviet Union’s Great Famine of 1932–1933, also known as the Holodomor in Ukraine, was a man-made demographic catastrophe, caused…
10 of History’s Worst Colonial Disasters
In 1800, before the Industrial Revolution, Europeans controlled 35% of world. By 1914, on the eve of World War I,…
10 Bizarre Things One Need to Know About the Little Ice Age
Imagine ice floes on the Great Lakes in June. New York Harbor frozen over so that people could walk across…
These 8 Lesser Known Genocides and their Leaders Will Shock You
Genocide is the destruction of a people or peoples based on ethnic, racial, religious, or national distinctions. It has been…
8 Genocides of the 20th Century That You Might Not Know About
Genocides are considered to be the worst atrocity a state or world leader can commit. They are condemned by every international…
Fighting Irish: 5 Irish Generals of the American Civil War
The Civil War saw neighbors, brothers, and even fathers and sons take up arms against each other, each side believing…
This Day In History: Fighting began in the Nigerian Civil War (1967)
On this day in history, the Nigerian Civil War began. The nation of Nigeria was part of the British Empire…