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8 Strange Facts About the Founding Fathers That Never Made the History Books

The musical Hamilton instigated a revival of renewed interest in the founding fathers. It’s easy to reduce the founding fathers to dry facts, important dates, and a timeline of battles and laws that we trot out for school tests.  However, these were unique individuals who worked hard to create a country from a conglomerate of settlements. They

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Surviving the Gulag: Life and Death in Stalin’s Forced Labor Camps

In the sprawling network of Soviet forced labor camps known as the Gulag, millions of men and women were subjected to unimaginable horrors. They were forced into back-breaking labor and inhumane living conditions, including the daily threat of torture, execution, and murder.  The Gulag was an instrument of political repression. It was used by Soviet

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Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas: A History of Organized Crime 

In truth, the Vegas of today resembles little the Vegas of yesteryear, on the surface, anyway. But one needs only stroll through the Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas to remind them of “Sin City’s” not-too-distant past.  There the names Meyer Lansky, “Bugsy” Siegel, Gus Greenbaum, and Moe Sedway aren’t torn from newspaper headlines or the pages of True Crime magazine, they represent

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