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	<title>History Confidential</title>
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		<title>The Political Symbols: Donkey and Elephant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder where on earth the Democrats got the donkey as a symbol of their party, and how the Republicans got theirs? I have. Well, it turns out a famous political cartoonist named Thomas Nast came up with both back in 1874.
Nast was America&#8217;s most influential political cartoonist from the Civil War to about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2010/02/the-political-symbols-donkey-and-elephant/</link>
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		<title>Martin Luther King, JR was a Republican</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King&#8217;s birthday, I&#8217;d like to set the record straight. There seems to be a group  of  people who believe that MLK could have never been a Republican because most blacks today are Democrats. As far as I know, there is no record of how MLK voted, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2010/01/martin-luther-king-jr-was-a-republican/</link>
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		<title>The Sad Story of Horace Wells, Pioneer of Dentistry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever imagined what it was like to get a tooth pulled back in the 1800&#8217;s?  Lack of regular check-ups often meant that the first and last resort for many suffering from tooth decay was extraction. Painful under even the best of circumstances, an inexperienced tooth-drawer armed with a pair of pliers-like forceps, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2010/01/the-sad-story-of-horace-wells-pioneer-of-dentistry/</link>
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		<title>When Flat-Chested Women Were All the Rage</title>
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The 1920&#8217;s or the Jazz age has always fascinated me. So much happened, so quickly to change the world. One of the things that happened was the birth of the Flapper. The Flapper embraced all things new and modern. Out with the Victorian rules, and in with the modern, young, and the carefree. WW I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2009/11/when-flat-chested-women-were-all-the-rage/</link>
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		<title>Archduke Franz Ferdinand: How a Wrong Turn Changed the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story of Archduke Franz Ferdinand has always fascinated me. If you think about it, his assassination was a pivotal point in history. It set things in motion which changed the world forever. Many believe that not only did this cause WW I, but root causes of  WWII, Cold War, and present day events can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2009/09/archduke-franz-ferdinand-how-a-wrong-turn-changed-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Who or What killed Pocahontas?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all have heard or seen a movie about the notorious love affair between Pocahontas and John Smith. Well the story didn&#8217;t quite happen the way we&#8217;ve heard or seen in movies. Legend has it that Pocahontas saved John Smith from native warriors who were about to club him to death. The story goes that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2009/08/who-or-what-killed-pocahontas/</link>
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		<title>The Origin of Wall Street</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First off let&#8217;s investigate where the name Manhattan derives from. It comes from the word Manna-hata, the European name given by the settlers to the Native American people who lived there (now believed to be the Lenape tribe). A ship from the Dutch West India company with an officer named Robert Jeut were sent on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2009/06/the-origin-of-wall-street/</link>
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		<title>The Salem Witchhunts and Drugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After researching the Salem Witch Hunts, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that teenagers will be teenagers regardless of when they existed in History. Teenage girls circa 1690&#8217;s living in colonial Salem had a pretty drab life. All these girls did was chores and attend church.   And &#8220;an idle mind is the devil&#8217;s work shop&#8221;&#8230;no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2009/05/the-salem-witchhunts-and-drugs/</link>
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		<title>Mary Lincoln &amp; Marie Antoinette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What did Mary Todd Lincoln and Marie Antoinette have in common? Let&#8217;s just say that these two loved to spend money. Money, I might add which didn&#8217;t belong to them. Diaries from the Illinois Historical Library, which were hidden from the public, were released in recent years which disclose Mary&#8217;s awful spending. The diaries were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2009/04/mary-lincoln-marie-antoinette/</link>
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		<title>A Damned Yankee Wrote &#8220;Dixie&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us know the song or anthem of the South, &#8220;Dixie.&#8221; What if I told you this song was written by a damned Yankee? Well it was.  On a rainy Sunday night, composer Daniel Decatur Emmett wrote &#8220;Dixie,&#8221; for Bryant&#8217;s Minstrels. Bryant Minstrels was a &#8220;blackfaced&#8221; minstrel which was popular at that time. Once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2009/03/a-damned-yankee-wrote-dixie/</link>
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