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	<description>Morsels of Little Known History Facts</description>
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		<title>The Two Burials of Sir Walter Raleigh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sir Walter Raleigh was a famous English writer, poet, and explorer who rose to prominence under Queen Elizabeth I (1558). Raleigh was sentenced to death for treason and his body was buried at the parish church next to Westminster Abby, but his head wasn&#8217;t, and it would be many years before his head found its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2010/09/the-two-burials-of-sir-walter-raleigh/</link>
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		<title>St Patrick was a Briton&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During the last days of the Roman Empire, a sixteen-year-old boy was abducted into slavery by some savages outside the border of the civilized world. They took him to a land far away where they  put him to work under horrible conditions. The young man who had never been religious decided to pray to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2010/07/st-patrick-was-a-briton/</link>
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		<title>Walter Hunt and the Million Dollar Baby that sold for $100</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all have had our share of failures in life, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve heard failure as bad as the failures of inventor Walter Hunt. Walter Hunt was a genius at making things, but awfully bad at making money.
In 1834 he invented the very first sewing machine in the United States. However, during this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2010/04/walter-hunt-and-the-million-dollar-baby-that-sold-for-100/</link>
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		<title>History of The Typewriter</title>
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Originally, of course, all writing was done by hand.
The  first ever person to patent a typewriter was Henry Mill. His idea is  entered in the records in the British Patent Office in 1714.  Unfortunately Henry Mill never got around to manufacturing his machine  due to impatience with manufacturing it.
More types of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2010/03/history-of-the-typewriter/</link>
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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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