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“When I was making it, people laughed at me a good deal,” Charles F. Ritchel later said. “But so they did at Noah when he built the ark.”

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Twenty-Five Years Before the Wright Brothers Took to the Skies, This Flying Machine Captivated America

In 1866, Joseph A. Joel, a Jewish private in the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, wrote a detailed account of an 1862 Passover Seder.

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How Jewish Soldiers Celebrated Passover in the Midst of the Civil War

USS South Dakota (BB-57) anchored in Hvalfjordur

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This 12-Year-Old Boy Fought on a World War II Battleship and Became the Nation's Youngest Decorated War Hero

The hideout boasted more than 1,000 bunk beds, a 400-seat cafeteria, individual auditoriums for both the Senate and the House of Representatives, vast water tanks, and a trash incinerator that could serve as a crematorium.

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The Town That Kept Its Nuclear Bunker a Secret for Three Decades

Furnished with permission from the British to cross into their waters, Samuel Williams set sail for Penobscot Bay in south-central Maine, which he thought was within a solar eclipse's path of totality.

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The Eclipse Chaser Who Led an Expedition Behind Enemy Lines During the Revolutionary War

Couriers’ duties included fetching patients from cabins, weighing babies, delivering medicine, cleaning saddles and bridles, and escorting any guests who rode the routes between FNS outposts.

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Why Debutantes Volunteered to Be Horse-Riding Couriers in Rural Kentucky

An illustration of Molly Maguires on their way to the gallows in Pottsville, Pennsylvania

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Eight Secret Societies You Probably Haven't Heard Of

Lincoln Cemetery was established in 1867, two years after the Civil War ended.

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Near the Site of the Gettysburg Address, These Black Civil War Veterans Remain Segregated, Even in Death