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When the ancient Persian Empire was at its height the Athenians were constantly fomenting trouble in the eastern Mediterranean. The…
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More affable scoundrel than kingpin of crime, Charles Ponzi sits astride criminal history as the man who gave his name…
Early 18th-century France was in the economic doldrums. The government was drowning in debt and the Regent, the Duke d’Orleans,…
In his authoritative work on the subject of human folly Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Victorian journalist…
By the time the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified more than half the states of America were…
For over a decade the Dreyfus Affair dominated French political and cultural life. It began with the rigged court martial…
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The port of Galveston is an island city. It sits at the east end of Galveston Island, an overgrown sandbar…