Society – 5 Minute History

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The History of UFOs

Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, have been a subject of fascination and debate for decades. The idea of extraterrestrial life…

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The Corn Laws were a series of British laws that regulated the import and export of grain. They were first…

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The Nobel Prize is a yearly award that is made available in a number of fields, including literature, peace and…

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The Gunpowder Plot, the attempt by thirteen young men to blow up the Houses of Parliament, is remembered and commemorated…

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The end of the Great War, now known as World War I, was the prelude to a decade of wealth and…

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Two hundred and sixty-two years ago, a very strange thing happened. Everyone in Britain and her North American colonies became…

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Frustrations with the way King Charles was ruling in England in the 1600s paired with religious oppression against non-traditional groups…

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The creation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 was the culmination of a political battle that had gone…

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Profits, government protection, and international trade – who would have thought that all of this would be generated by one…