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Timeline of the 1990s

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Nostradamus and His Prophecies

Alpaca and Llama side by side

What’s the Difference Between Llamas and Alpacas?

Polar bear leaping among ice floes at Spitsbergen, Svalbard archipelago, Norway, the Arctic. Sea ice climate change mammal jump global warming

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Portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Francois Janinet, 1777. Color etching and engraving with gold leaf printed on two sheets, 30x13.5 in.

Did Marie-Antoinette Really Say “Let Them Eat Cake”?

Watergate scandal. Richard M. Nixon. President Nixon gives a press conference and talks to the press, March 12, 1971.

9 American Political Scandals

Horses. Equus caballus. Horse stable. A brown horse looks out from his stall through the window.

Horsing Around: 7 of the Weirdest Racehorse Names in History

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Key People

Eddie Cantor

American entertainer

Fay Templeton, 1895.

Fay Templeton

American singer and actress

Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks.

Fanny Brice

American actress

Gypsy Rose Lee

Gypsy Rose Lee

American entertainer

Harrigan, Edward

Edward Harrigan

American actor, producer, and playwright