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  • Did Beer Give Birth to Civilization?

    Did Beer Give Birth to Civilization?0

    About 10,000 years ago, humans in the Fertile Crescent began tilling soil and cultivating crops. Why they began doing this we’ll likely never know for certain. But compelling evidence suggests it was related to the discovery of the process of fermentation and, more specifically, beer. Nearly 30 years ago, Solomon Katz, a University of Pennsylvania

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  • Did Bad Hemorrhoids Cause Napoleon to Lose at Waterloo?

    Did Bad Hemorrhoids Cause Napoleon to Lose at Waterloo?0

    Practically before the last musket had fired, people were trying to explain how Napoleon lost at the famous Battle of Waterloo. A theory that has persisted is that Napoleon was suffering from a bad case of hemorrhoids at the time of the battle, and this delayed his opening assault on the morning of June 18,

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  • Did Apple Really Kick Breitbart’s App From iTunes?

    Did Apple Really Kick Breitbart’s App From iTunes?0

    Some right-wing sites—InfoWars, Gateway Pundit, and several others—are reporting that Breitbart’s app was kicked from the iTunes store by Apple. The word “purge” is being used. Breitbart is one of the most-trafficked websites in the U.S. and boasted nearly 170 million page views in October alone, according to media reports. So the idea that its app

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  • Did Anti-Trump Protesters Actually Help Trump?

    Did Anti-Trump Protesters Actually Help Trump?0

    As we know now, Donald Trump dominated the Republican electoral competitions on March 15, taking Florida, Missouri, Illinois, and North Carolina. On Friday, March 11, the nation watched as a coalition of different Left-leaning groups descended upon a Trump rally in Chicago and effectively shut it down through disruptions and protests. The question going into

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  • Did America Use to be Safer?

    Did America Use to be Safer?0

    In an article for CNN yesterday, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan recounts her childhood summers spent at her great aunts’ house in Selden, NY. To get to the nearest town once a week, she and one of her elderly aunts would hitch a ride from some stranger 25 miles each way. And, as Noonan

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  • Did Alexander Hamilton Have a Love Affair With John Laurens?

    Did Alexander Hamilton Have a Love Affair With John Laurens?2

    In April 1779, as the American Colonies struggled to gain their independence from England, a 24-year-old Alexander Hamilton sent this letter to John Laurens, a 23-year-old South Carolinian: Cold in my professions, warm in my friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it might be in my power, by action rather than words, to convince you that I love

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