Every school child is familiar with the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, or at least the vague elements. It involves a mysterious figure showing up in a town in Germany during the Middle Ages, both scaring away a plague of rats from the settlement and then luring scores of children away from the […]
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There are a great many tales that have been disseminated down into popular culture, which were produced by the Brothers Grimm or the Grimm Brothers, as they are variously known. Jacob Ludwig Grimm and Wilhelm Carl Grimm were German academics from the state of Hesse or Hessen in the late eighteenth and early-to-mid-nineteenth century, who
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12th, 1809 – April 15th, 1865) was the United States’ 16th President. He was elected to two terms, serving from March 4th, 1861, until John Wilkes Booth assassinated him on April 15th, 1865. Abraham Lincoln is known primarily for two important things: Though both are great feats, Abraham lived a fascinating life.
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Little Red Riding Hood. You know the story: A little girl in a red cloak and hood is told by her mother to take an item of food to her grandmother; while she’s en route to visit Granny, she meets the Big Bad Wolf, who tricks her into letting him sniff out the food; he
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Weddings are almost incomplete without the bride adorned in a beautiful wedding dress. The groom, family, friends, and guests look forward to being wowed by the appearance and style of the bride’s dress. The wedding dresses often take center stage in the ceremony and serve as a memory for years. Hence, many brides spend tons
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We all know about how Great Britain traveled the world and conquered nations. However, few know the intricate details connected to these colonial times. Much more happened than an army of men on horses with funny hats proclaiming a land to belong to their queen. When we look carefully into the details, we will find
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Japan’s Sengoku period between 1467 and 1615 was a time of political intrigue, war, and change on a massive scale. The enormous demand for samurai marked a cultural shift that forever altered Japanese history. One of the fascinating tales from this period is the story of Yasuke, the black samurai. He was an outsider who
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Few figures from American colonial history are as ubiquitous and perhaps as misunderstood as Pocahontas, the daughter of a Native American chieftain who married an Englishman and ended up in England before passing at an unfortunately young age. Her life has been immortalized in several works, including two Disney films during the 1990s, which presented largely erroneous
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The term “ponzi scheme” is a common business term that describes when investors pay money into a nonexistent enterprise, and their money is returned to earlier investors as fake payments. But many may not know that the term originated from Charles Ponzi — an Italian con artist and swindler. They used his charismatic charm and
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The life story of Juan Garrido would not be complete without mentioning the transatlantic slave trade, which existed from the 16th to the 19th century. Spain invaded the Americas in the 1490s. During that time, millions of enslaved Africans were transported through the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. The Spaniards captured them as slaves and
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