World History
6 Old Recipes That No One Would Dare Make Today
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World HistoryFact66Divers recently found a long-lost shipwreck that sank in a hit-and-run.
More than 160 years after vanishing beneath the waves of the Atlantic, the wreck of French steamship Le Lyonnais was discovered off the coast of Massachusetts. The ship’s demise in…
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World HistoryFact69The only WWII enemy-caused deaths in the continental U.S. were at a picnic in Oregon.
Elsie Mitchell had baked a chocolate cake for the picnic that day on May 5, 1945. The young pastor’s wife, five months pregnant with her first child, accompanied her husband…
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World HistoryFact87Italy once called for the abolition of pasta.
Pasta is a culinary staple worldwide, but in Italy it’s also a cultural institution — which is why it’s shocking to consider that the country once tried to abolish the…
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World HistoryArticle33What People Really Ate at Medieval Feasts
If your main image of a feast in the Middle Ages is from a night at Medieval Times or your favorite medieval fantasy movie, you might picture giant turkey legs,…






