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Here are seven notable historical events that happened on Valentine’s Day.

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A Norwegian archaeologist believes that the Norwegians were on their way to the Roman Empire as mercenaries around the year ...

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Alchemy in Byzantine times was a long intellectual tradition blending Ancient Greek science, Egyptian symbolism, and ...

The saint's feast day became associated with romantic love, but there are more practical reasons why it's also the start of the Thoroughbred breeding season in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Many of these money-spending traditions can be traced back to the Middle Ages. Poet Geoffrey Chaucer, known for his ...

The initial mistake was embracing the anti-nationalist philosophy that Soviet communism had implanted. It metastasized in the ...

There are different theories about why the holiday falls in the middle of February, but the month has always been associated ...