Donald Trump’s Andrew Jackson-Civil War Answer Is All Steve Bannon

President Trump’s revisionist, Andrew Jackson-related history can be traced to none other than Steve Bannon. By Asawin Suebsaeng.
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An Illustrated 19th-Century Japanese Travelogue of Egypt

The image of Egypt as conceived by innovative Japanese publisher Takejirō Hasegawa was well outside the dominant paradigm and thus startling to Western eyes.
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Europe's Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets

High-tech tools divulge new information about the mysterious and violent fates met by these corpses
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Rare Sprites' Photographed Beside Southern Lights

A photographer captures sprites, a meteor shower and the Southern Lights all in one night.
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NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell

Henry Corra
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Battle of Chancellorsville begins - May 01, 1863

[Joseph Hooker's] well-executed plan placed the Army of Northern Virginia in grave danger. But Robert E. Lee’s tactical brilliance and gambler’s intuition saved him.
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Top Misconceptions People Have about Pulp-Era Science Fiction

A lot of people I run into have all kinds of misconceptions about what pulp-era scifi, from the 1920s-1950s, was actually like....
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