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10 Stomach-Dropping American Mining Disasters from History
Mines are dangerous places, and coal mines are the most dangerous of all. In one coal mining accident in China in 1942 more than 1500 Chinese forced laborers were killed in an…
American History
You Won’t Believe How These 10 American Ghost Towns Once Were
Ghost towns conjure the image in the mind’s eye of abandoned towns of the Old West, with eerily swinging saloon…
American History
Remarkable Old Photographs from the Wild West Will Surprise You
What we know of as “westward expansion” has been occurring since the late eighteenth century. After the Revolutionary War, people…
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This Day In History: The Largest Diamond in History Was Discovered (1905)
On January 25, 1905, the largest diamond ever found was discovered. It was unearthed at the Premier Mine in Pretoria,…