Ancient History’s Greatest Speeches: The Ten Commandments, Moses As religious history goes, this one’s a biggie. Moses delivered this speech regarding God’s Ten Commandments, which define ethics and worship in Judaism and most forms of Christianity. For those unfamiliar with the story, God inscribed the commandments on two tablets, which he gave to Moses on Mount Sinai, where Moses read them out.
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“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
The thrilling tale of perhaps the most daring undercover feat in the history of journalism by a woman named Nellie Bly.The story of Nellie Bly, the pen name of a young reporter named Elizabeth Cochran, has been told and retold ever since she burst onto the scene in 1887. And much of this has to do with her firsthand account of life in an insane asylum.
Nellie Bly’s stint in the facility wasn’t necessarily how she envisioned making a name for herself.
The reasons why we kiss and hug might seem simple and self-evident, but 64% of the world's cultures don't even kiss at all. And those that do don't even really know why they do it.Far more about our lives than we realize is understood through touch. Humans (not to mention animals) can communicate an immense amount of information, from aggression to benevolence, with just a handshake or a tap on the shoulder.
After a black barmaid named Hattie Carroll was killed by a drunken white man, Bob Dylan turned her story into a protest song.The Baltimore Afro-AmericanIn 1963, 1,600 people attended Hattie Carroll’s funeral in Baltimore. Her killer, William Zantzinger, died the same month Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009.
When Bob Dylan’s mournful folk song “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” was released in 1964, it had only been a year since the black 51-year-old barmaid was killed.
Operation Teardrop Wikimedia CommonsA life raft carries survivors from U-546 in the midst of a group of U.S. Navy destroyer escorts.
Many of Adolf Hitler’s grand plans were so absurdly ambitious that one could simply disregard them without a second thought. But when Hitler threatened to attack New York and sent U-boats capable of carrying long-range rockets uncomfortably close to the East Coast, the U.S. military had to take him seriously.