This baseball player was the last one to have an over .400 batting average.
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Hallowed Ground | Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum, Nanjing, China
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum owes its 1958 establishment to Chinese Communist Chairman […]
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What We Learned From… U.N. Peacekeepers in the Congo
Peacekeeping is a relatively recent concept in military operations. It emerged in the wake […]
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Tibor Rubin: The Selfless Survivor
When President George W. Bush draped the Medal of Honor around Tibor Rubin’s neck on Sept. 23, 2005, it was in recognition of the Holocaust survivor’s heroism and sacrifice more than a half-century earlier.
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Napoléon’s Egyptian Riddle
Though the young French general ultimately failed to wrest Egypt from the Mamluks, he did win the trust and support of his countrymen.
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Troubled Waters
Sterling Hayden sacrificed his sailing dreams, a budding Hollywood career, a marriage and his […]
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Close Call at Crooked Billet
Ordered to cut off supplies to British troops occupying Philadelphia, a young Patriot officer […]
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A Storm in Every Port
The sanguinary saga of Norwegian King Olaf Tryggvason relates his bloody raids, mercurial romances, […]
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Daily Quiz for April 17, 2017
Peabody, Emmy and Edgar award winning writer, Michael Crichton, held a doctorate in this.