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		<title>Pioneering Fighting Politicians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We may think that all this mean talk today in politics is all new, but it isn’t. It has been around for quite a long, long time. There are so many stories much like what we hear today, and even worse, and others were downright creative. Let’s begin with a creative story. In 1950 George [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2011/11/pioneering-fighting-politicians/</link>
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		<title>History: Bathing in Early America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My visit this past weekend to Patrick Henry’s home in Beaverdam, VA sparked an interest in investigating the history of bathing in America.  We see in a lot of period pieces on TV, the beautiful damsels in their petticoats, and matching parasol, and think she must smell like fresh Lavender. We see the handsome genteel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2011/08/history-bathing-in-early-america/</link>
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		<title>Dead Man Walking: The Strange Story of Jeremy Bentham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I heard it all, but this is by far, the most bizarre story I’ve heard in a long time.  In the University College London in the main building of the college is a polished wood-paneled cabinet holding the embalmed body of its founder, Jeremy Bentham.  Jeremy was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2011/04/dead-man-walking-the-strange-story-of-jeremy-bentham/</link>
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		<title>How Thomas Paine Kept His Head</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Paine was once called “Missionary of revolution,” and that he was.  Paine was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers.  In 1776 he published a pamphlet titled “Common Sense,” which stimulated colonial America’s independence from Great Britain. This writing is credited for driving “The American Revolution.”  It is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2011/03/how-thomas-paine-kept-his-head/</link>
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		<title>History of NYC: NYC Underground</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I caught an interview with urban historian Steve Duncan on one of the morning shows and was just fascinated with what he was doing. Duncan takes us underground in New York City to abandoned subway stations, Lincoln Tunnel, a sewer (euwww) and even climbs the Williamsburg Bridge! The best part for me was the beautiful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2011/01/history-of-nyc-nyc-underground/</link>
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		<title>The First Computer Bug</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t you just hate a bug on your iPhone, computers, etc?  They make your life a living hell! But where did the term “computer bug” come from, and which computer got it first?  Back in 1945, after WWII ended, the gargantuan Mark II computer which ran ordinance calculations for the U.S. Navy shut down. Technicians [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2011/01/the-first-computer-bug/</link>
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		<title>History of the word &#8220;Xmas&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What I&#8217;m about to tell you is news to me as well. I have always found it offensive when someone would send me a Christmas card with the words, “Merry Xmas.” Why? Because I&#8217;ve always felt that when someone did that, it was somewhat of an effort on their part to remove “Christ” from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2010/12/history-of-the-word-xmas/</link>
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		<title>The Real Scoop: History of the Ice Cream Cone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One third of the ice cream consumed today is licked off an ice cream cone. It&#8217;s one of America&#8217;s favorite treats during the hot summer days. But have you ever wondered who came up with this brilliant, yummy idea? The year is 1904 on a very hot day in the Saint Louis World&#8217;s Fair. Ernest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2010/11/the-real-scoop-history-of-the-ice-cream-cone/</link>
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		<title>Muzak to my Ears:History of &#8220;Elevator Music.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever stood in an elevator and it seemed like you would never get to your floor? Even worse, is the horrible “elevator music,” they torture us with. Who is responsible for this music we hear in elevators, malls, &#38; supermarkets? George Owen Squier, an aviation trailblazer, &#38; inventor that&#8217;s who. As a major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.historyconfidential.com/2010/10/muzak-to-my-ears/</link>
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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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