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  1. Pinned Tweet
    11 Nov 2018
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  2. 12 hours ago

    A literal 'rage against the machine.'

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  3. 14 hours ago

    What brought him down—power craze, hubris, fate?

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  4. 15 hours ago

    In 536 A.D., much of the world went dark for a full 18 months, as a mysterious fog rolled over Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia.

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    Teach WWI history with the + Voyager story. Students can explore real locations around the world and read about their significance.

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  6. 16 hours ago

    It's ! Do you have a favorite tidbit of historical trivia? Share it with us!

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Aaliyah's 1994 debut album Age Ain't Nothing But A Number has sold more than six million copies worldwide, but the public wasn't exactly buying the title’s message when it came to the late R&B singer's secretive personal life.

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    Explore the possibilities of technology with and in a two-hour special, airing during 's Mysteries Week tonight at 9/8c.

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  9. 18 hours ago

    Not necessarily as child friendly as you'd think...

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  10. 20 hours ago

    As many of the migrants languished in poverty in camps on the outskirts of California communities, some locals warned that the newcomers would spread disease and crime. They advocated harsh measures to keep migrants out or send them back to the Midwest.

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  11. 21 hours ago

    Nixon ordered a break-in at the Brookings Institution at least three times in the summer of 1971, but his staff never ended up doing it. And in fact, the report Nixon was so concerned about doesn’t seem to have existed.

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  12. Jan 3

    In the 1700s, an English translation of the Quran (or Koran) actually became a bestseller among Protestants in England and its American colonies. One of its readers was Thomas Jefferson.

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    6 Nov 2018

    is on this Sunday at 9pm EST! This is the real deal!!! is back!

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  14. Jan 3

    An 'arrr-ms' race on the high seas if you will.

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  15. Jan 3

    is far more than a location—it has been adopted as a term to describe all U.S. financial institutions and U.S. economic power.

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  16. Jan 3

    It was the setting for a few of the most memorable high-value prisoner exchanges between the Soviets and the West.

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    We are LIVE on Facebook with 's creator , Executive Director Jan C. Harzan, and Professor Paul Hynek, the son of J. Allen Hynek.

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    Only 30 minutes until we're LIVE on with 's creator David O'Leary, Executive Director Jan C. Harzan, and Professor Paul Hynek, the son of J. Allen Hynek. Don't miss it at 2pm ET/11am PT.

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  19. Jan 3

    It is the first spacecraft in history to attempt or achieve a landing on this unexplored area, which is never visible from Earth.

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  20. Jan 3

    The gap in Earth’s timeline is known as the Great Unconformity, and represents 250 million to 1.2 billion years of lost time.

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  21. Jan 3

    On 1521, Martin Luther is excommunicated.

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