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People, places, events and moments that shaped the world.

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Top 7 American Historical Myths That Aren't Quite True

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1George Washington chopped down the cherry tree
2Betsy Ross definitely sewed the first American flag
3Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey as America's national bird
4The first Thanksgiving happened exactly as the popular story suggests
5Paul Revere shouted "The British are coming!"
6The Pilgrims dressed exactly like the traditional Thanksgiving image
7The Wild West looked like Hollywood says it did
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Top 7 National Parks With Surprisingly Strange Histories

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1Yellowstone — the world's first national park
2Yosemite — initially protected as a state park
3Hot Springs — reserved decades before Yellowstone
4Yellowstone's U.S. Army era
5The 1988 Yellowstone fires
6The return of wolves to Yellowstone
7The national-park idea itself
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Top 7 Objects That Explain Why Sheffield Became Sheffield

Seven real objects and industrial survivals that make Sheffield's transformation into a global manufacturing city tangible.

Sheffield · UK

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1Benjamin Huntsman's clock
2The Bessemer converter
3An Old Sheffield Plate object
4The Abbeydale crucible-steel furnace
5An Abbeydale waterwheel
6An Abbeydale tilt hammer
7A Sheffield-made cutlery object
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Top 7 Sheffield Stories That Sound Completely Impossible

Seven Sheffield stories that seem improbable until the historical record catches up with them.

Sheffield · UK

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1Penicillin successfully used therapeutically in Sheffield in 1930
2Sheffield FC founded before modern football rules
3The Youdan Cup before the FA Cup
4Stainless steel emerging from a gun-barrel problem
5More than 160 water-powered industrial sites
6The Great Sheffield Flood
7The Benty Grange helmet
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Top 7 Times Leeds Was Surprisingly First

Leeds has a remarkable record of early railways, photography, transport technology, engineering and industry.

Leeds · UK

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1The Salamanca steam locomotive
2The Middleton Railway
3Washington Teasdale's photographic self-portrait
4Leeds' permanently automated traffic lights
5Leeds' early colour-printing industry
6Leeds' early steam-tram engineering
7The Blackburn Type D
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Top 7 Objects That Tell the Story of Leeds

Seven objects that reveal surprisingly different sides of Leeds' industrial, commercial, scientific and cultural history.

Leeds · UK

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1The Little Nipper mousetrap
2A Spirograph
3A Cluedo board
4A piece of Portland cement
5A Blackburn Type D component
6A Chippendale piece of furniture
7The Chapeltown cauldron
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Top 7 Most outrageous things done by Stuart monarchs

The Stuarts are arguably the most outrageous set of monarchs ever. See above.

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1Charles II making a wig out of his mistresses’ pubic hair
2Charles I marrying a Catholic
3Charles II converting to Catholicism as part of a deal with the French
4James II being a Catholic
5Charles II being unable to produce a legitimate Protestant heir because his wife was Catholic
6Charles II exhuming Cromwell’s body and hanging it in the gallows on the anniversary of his father’s execution
7James II having a nosebleed and fleeing the country as a result
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