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Topic: History (page 10)

Golden retriever puppy laying on an American flag (Getty Images/Mike Bagley)

The changing face of “America’s dog”

Brett Bachman
(Rocky Luten / Food52)

A brief history of the American cookout

Arlyn Osborne - Food52
Petrified tree trunks beside the rio Manati near Iquitos, Peru (iStock/Getty Images)

Secrets of Peru's petrified forest

Herb Meyer, Deborah Woodcock - The Conversation
Joe Biden, right, and his son Beau had a strong relationship until Beau’s death in 2015 (PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Legacy of daddy issues among presidents

Chris Lamb - The Conversation
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Strawberry Moon rising (Getty Images/ Cochise Vista)

A red-tinted strawberry moon rises

Matthew Rozsa
American Voting Suppression (Getty Images)

Republicans' new target: History

Chauncey DeVega
George Washington side-eying Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Did George Washington see Trump coming?

Matthew Rozsa
Senator Doug Mastriano (Doug Mastriano Official Campaign Website)

Trump's army of God hasn't backed down

Paul Rosenberg
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Workers in hazmat suits dig graves for those who dies due to COVID-19 (Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

The historical trauma of COVID

Matthew Rozsa
Donald Trump, behind bars (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

An ex-president in prison? It'd be ugly

Matthew Rozsa
Police Officer figurine (Getty Images)

The real history of "defund the police"

Paul Rosenberg
Rudolph Giuliani poses for a photographer in a New York City studio December 15, 1986. (Yvonne Hemsey/Newsmakers)

Rudy and me: A fable of the '80s

Gary May
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Nazi parade in front of the Reichstag, 1934. | Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's Big Lie — and Hitler's

Chauncey DeVega
The Moon and the Peloponnesian War (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How lunar eclipses changed history

Matthew Rozsa
Airdale terrier (Getty Images)

The dog who went on trial for cat murder

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Two male pilots in the cockpit of airplane wearing sunglasses, Oklahoma, USA, 1955 (Constance Bannister Corp/Getty Images)

Sexism at 40,000 feet

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Historical figures with coded diaries

Jane Alexander - Mental Floss
Millard Fillmore, Ulysses S. Grant, Teddy Roosevelt and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ex-president comeback? It's nothing new

Matthew Rozsa
First responders load a patient into an ambulance from a nursing home where multiple people have contracted COID-19 on April 17, 2020 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. | Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station during Influenza Pandemic, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, 1918. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fake news and the pandemic (of 1918)

Chauncey DeVega
This handout picture released on May 4, 2021 by the CNRS-University of Bordeaux, shows archaelogists at the Panga Ya Saidi site, north of Mombasa, Kenya, where the remains of a 3-year-old child named by the scientists "Mtoto" (meaning 'child' in Swahili) and buried inside a deliberately dug pit, were discovered. (FRANCESCO DERRICO,ALAIN QUEFFELEC/UNIVERSITY OF BORDEAUX/AFP via Getty Images)

The case of the 78,000-year-old grave

Matthew Rozsa
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Little pocket in jeans (Getty Images)

Why do some jeans have fake pockets?

Jake Rossen - Mental Floss
Abraham Lincoln fed up with Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP the "party of Lincoln"? Not close

Matthew Rozsa
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Bobby Seale in The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Niko Tavernise/NETFLIX)

"Chicago 7": Flawed but highly relevant

Matthew Rozsa
A Mississippi Civil Rights Museum mural of Freedom Riders who were arrested (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

11 facts about the Freedom Riders

Mark Mancini - Mental Floss
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