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Imagine two hundred years of peace and quiet. From 27 BCE to 180 CE, people in Rome lived in harmony. This period is known as the Pax Romana, or Pax Augusta.
Yalta Conference was a diplomatic meeting of the Allied Powers; USSR, United Kingdom, and the US held at Yalta, Crimea
Everyone remembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first people to reach the Moon. Yet, the real magic happened on the ground, and one of the most notable figures who led to the success of NASA’s Apollo 11 was Katherine Johnson.
On the morning of October 14, Major Richard Heyser entered the Cuban airspace in a U-2, the preferred reconnaissance plane of the United States Air Force (USAF) during the Cold War, for a routine surveillance run over Cuba.
Americans watched with great concern as what they initially thought to be a nationalist revolution slowly turned into a communist one, just ninety miles from their borders.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s till his death in 1953. After his death, arguments and debates emerged over whether his policies helped the advancement of the Soviet Union at all.
The Great Famine, also known as the Irish Holocaust, was the worst famine to hit 19th century Europe. It occurred in Ireland from 1845 to 1849.
The failure of the League of Nations, the original peacekeeping organization created during World War 1, shed light on the need for reform in order to create an establishment to maintain world peace.
In the pre-Columbian era, the Incas built the largest and most sophisticated empire in South America.
the lost Persian army has survived over two and a half millennia - despite a blatant lack of hard evidence.
On September 16, 2007, employees of the Blackwater Security Consulting private security firm opened fire on unarmed Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square in Baghdad while directing traffic.
The shortest war in history lasted just minutes, 38 minutes to be exact.
The Plague of Justinian was the first bubonic plague pandemic in history that was reliably recorded, and it lasted for more than two centuries.
The 1904 Olympic Marathon is regarded today as one of the strangest athletic events in history and certainly the strangest Olympic event. The man initially crowned as the winner had ridden 11 miles of the marathon in a car.