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The Burr–Hamilton duel was a duel between two prominent American politicians: the former secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, and sitting vice president, Aaron Burr, on July 11, 1804.
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Before there was ‘Hamilton’ the musical, there was Burr the novel

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Sweet mistake: How a pre-teen invented popsicles
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Sweet mistake: How a pre-teen invented popsicles

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The man who said ‘no’ to a spot on the Supreme Court
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The man who said ‘no’ to a spot on the Supreme Court

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Completed in 1917, the Wisconsin Capitol was not the first building to serve as home to the state legislature. It wasn't even the second, third, or fourth. (iStock)
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Wisconsin’s costly mistake goes up in flames

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In 1913, a freshly inaugurated President Woodrow Wilson delivered his State of the Union address to both chambers of Congress in a joint session. (AP Photo, File)
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State of the Union addresses aren’t usually shocking, but the 1913 one was

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Charles Heidsieck was born into a French family with a long history of marketing champagne.
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How ‘Champagne Charlie’ brought bubbly to the US

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Think you've seen severe winter weather? No matter how bad it is where you are, it can't hold a candle to this, the Blizzard of 1880-1881. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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How an unrivaled winter gave us the word ‘blizzard’

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Woodrow Wilson once called Edward House his
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Before Trump and Steve Bannon, there was another dysfunctional White House relationship

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In many ways, Franklin D. Roosevelt (pictured above) and Donald Trump started out on a similar note with the news media. (AP Photo/George R. Skadding)
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Another president hated the media even more than Trump does

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At least 602 people were killed. (AP)
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The deadly tragedy that killed hundreds that you’ve probably never heard of

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