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(CNN) -- History in the making was how many international newspapers viewed Barack Obama's emergence as Democratic presidential candidate, with the focus on his status as the first ever African-American to win the ticket. Newspapers described Obama as a "political giant slayer." Even before Hillary Clinton admitted defeat in the hard-fought contest, some publications were already dissecting her failed campaign, analyzing where it went wrong and what the future ...

Just because I had a taste for pierogis (smile) Polish cuisine occupies a distinctive place among Slavic food because foreign influences abound throughout Poland's long history. Ancient merchants traveling the famous amber trail from Byzantium through Poland brought exotic spices like cinnamon and cloves, while invaders from Asia brought steak Tatar, and Bona Sforza. In the early 16th century, the Italian wife of King Sigismund I introduced many kinds ...

By Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss In 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F. Kennedy's challenge to, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," gave up his student deferment, left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines. In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the Marines, volunteered again to become a ...

from Polar Shift Albert Einstein was "electrified" when he learned of Charles Hapgood's theory in "Path of the Poles", whereby ice build-up at the polar caps could eventually cause the crust to "slide" over the lava ocean until the centrifugal force of the spinning Earth brought those ice caps around to the equator. Geological evidence suggests that something like this has happened repeatedly during the "life" of the planet; ...

The transatlantic slave trade is a major element of global history. The forced movement of West African people across the Atlantic resulted in unprecedented forms of cruelty and subjugation, racism, inequality, shifts in cultural identity, a marked decline in the West African population and significant economic and agricultural developments in the Caribbean, Europe and the Americas. Little is known about the 400-year long transatlantic slave trade and its lasting ...

Mary Ellen Noone's great-grandmother was a petite woman — probably 95 pounds wet — but she was very strong, Noone says. Pinky Powell, who was born before the turn of the last century, used to say that she could pick 100 pounds of cotton by lunchtime, Noone adds. "She never smiled, but I could tell when I looked in her eyes that she really loved me," she says. One night, Noone ...

Probably not, but it wouldn't be the first time it has been done if they did. Check out this excerpt from Gregoriancant's blog article "The Victoria Woodhull/Frederick Douglass Ticket in the 1872 U.S. Presidential Election": In 1871, Woodhull used her lobbying skills to make a fascinating speech at a convention for the National Woman Suffrage Association that stopped everything cold. Her ability to grab the attention of people was ...

"Then, when we rid ourselves of prejudice, or racial feeling, and look facts in the face, we must acknowledge that, notwithstanding the cruelty and moral wrong of slavery, the ten million Negroes inhabiting this country, who themselves or whose ancestors went through the school of American slavery, are in a stronger and more hopeful condition, materially, intellectually, morally, and religiously, than is true of an equal number of ...

Are we afraid to ask the hard questions about what really happened? The principle known as "Ockham's razor" states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. In layman's terms, we shouldn't make any assertions for which we have no proof. The assertion has been made that the attacks ...

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