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On January 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower delivered his political farewell to the ...

John R. Brinkley (July 8, 1885 – May 26, 1942) became nationally known as the ...

Unable to make the 1908 Pennsylvania German Society's annual gathering due to illness, th...

In this rare 1924 recording, James Joyce reads from the Aeolus episode of his masterpiece...

Abraham Lincoln's carefully crafted gettysburg address was originally meant to be seconda...

William F. Hooley (April 16, 1861 - October 12, 1918) was a British-born American bass si...

President John F. Kennedy gave his "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech on June 26, 1963, in Wes...

Adeline Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was a feminist, pacifist, anti...

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 - April 18, 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist...

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was an American politician and act...

Idi Amin Dada Oumee (c. 1925 – 16 August 2003) was an Ugandan military offic...

Idi Amin Dada Oumee (c. 1925 – 16 August 2003) was an Ugandan military offic...

Rita Levi-Montalcini (April 22, 1909 - December 30, 2012) was an Italian Nobel laureate, ...

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the Un...

Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 - February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical p...

Golda Meir (May 3, 1898 - December 8, 1978) was an Israeli politician who served as the f...

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969 was an American military...

Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965)...

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 - April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the Un...

In 1961, poet Robert Frost was invited to read at the inauguration of President John F. K...

Mahatma Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30, 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial n...

Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 - July 17, 1961), nicknamed "the Georgia Peach", wa...

Arthur Neville Chamberlain (March 18, 1869 - November 9, 1940) served as Prime Minister o...

Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 - June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK...

President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963), often referred to b...

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an American nov...

Archibald James Carey Jr. (February 29, 1908 - April 20, 1981) was an American lawyer, ju...

Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (December 27, 1901 - May 6, 1992) was a German and Ame...

George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 - December 21, 1945) was a charismatic, hard-d...

Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 - April 5, 1964) was an American military leader who ...

Joseph Patrick Kennedy (September 6, 1888 - November 18, 1969) was an American businessma...

Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Thomas A. Watson (January 18, 1854 - December 13, 1934) was...

Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970) was born in Monmouthshire, into one of...

Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970) was born in Monmouthshire, into one of...

Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretica...

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United St...

Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretica...

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 - March 2, 1982) was an American author who wrote ...

Neville Goddard (February 19, 1905 – October 1, 1972) was born in St. Michael, Barb...

Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946), better known as H. G. Wells,...

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005) was an American journalist a...

Margaret Hilda Thatcher (October 13, 1925 - April 8, 2013) was a British Conservative pol...

On May 6, 1937, the LZ 129 Hindenburg, a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airsh...

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, that sank in ...

Sylvia Plath born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, MA, was an American poet, novelist, and...

Sylvia Plath born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, MA, was an American poet, novelist, and...

Father Charles Coughlin was a controversial Canadian-American Catholic priest based in Mi...

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, directo...

David Ben-Gurion (October 16, 1886 - December 1, 1973) was the primary national founder o...

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United St...