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You know Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin, but you probably haven't formally met Salmon. Salmon P. Chase was Abraham Lincoln’s Treasury Secretary and the man…
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How did a completely accidental lab discovery lead directly to the creation of the modern household microwave?
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The glorious castles and heroic knights of the middle ages were entirely funded by a brutally efficient system of extracting free crops from trapped peasants.…
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Merchants during the Tang dynasty in ancient China grew so exhausted by carrying incredibly heavy strings of copper coins over long trade routes that they…
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In 1910, America faced a massive meat shortage and an overgrowth of invasive water hyacinths in southern swamps. A serious proposal was pushed to import herds…
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In 1943, the U.S. war machine realized it was severely lacking the copper needed for ammunition and communications wiring. Instead of halting production of…
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