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  Saint-Domingue, now the country of Haiti, was one of France's most profitable colonies in the eighteenth century. Wealthy French...

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  Feudalism was an economic, political, and social structure in Europe from approximately the ninth century to the fifteenth century....

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  The frontal lobes, also known as the right and left frontal cortexes, play crucial roles in memory, motivation, attention, planning,...

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  In the book Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom tells of the time he spent with his dying former sociology professor, Morrie. While...

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  At the beginning of the Civil War, General Winfield Scott developed his "Anaconda Plan" to defeat the Confederacy by blockading the...

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  The shared use of toilets and bathrooms by black and white people is a recurring theme in The Help. Throughout the novel,...

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  In 1919 the Paris Peace Conference was called to officially negotiate the terms for the end of World War I. While dozens of countries...

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  While many tend to fault Herbert Hoover for doing nothing to address the Great Depression, he and Franklin Delano Roosevelt actually...

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  While there is no singular cause of WWI—it was a complex combination of many factors, including nationalism, international...