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An armistice was signed in 1953, but no peace treaty was ever made. The Korean Peninsula remains divided, and the war still shapes East Asian politics.
Drainage networks, public wells, and grid-like roads show the Indus Valley civilization planned cities centuries before the term 'urban planning' was known.
Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses on indulgences sparked a movement that divided Europe. The Protestant Reformation forever changed Western religion, politics, and…
Edison wanted the world to use direct current, while Tesla and Westinghouse offered alternating current. Their competition determined how electricity flows into…
Aerial photos revealed Soviet missile silos in Cuba. For thirteen days, Kennedy and Khrushchev faced off in a crisis that brought the world closest to nuclear war.
The Allies' ultimatum on November 9, 1945 was met with resistance from the entire city. The Battle of Surabaya became one of the largest battles in the Indonesian…
In 1911, an Italian handyman hid the Mona Lisa under his coat and stole it from the Louvre. The scandal transformed an ordinary painting into a global icon.
A report about a torpedo attack that was later found to be erroneous became the basis for a resolution that gave President Johnson the power to escalate the Vietnam…
Two of England's finest warships set sail to find the Northwest Passage and never returned. It took 170 years to discover the wrecks of Erebus and Terror at the…
After Shanghai fell, Japanese troops entered Nanking and carried out mass killings and sexual violence for weeks. The event remains an open wound in East Asian…
For two decades, the CIA ran a secret program to control the human mind, including administering LSD without consent. Files that were supposed to be destroyed…
The Russian Baltic Fleet sailed 18,000 miles only to be destroyed by Admiral Togo at the Tsushima Strait. Japan's victory in May 1905 changed the world's balance of…
