Between 40% and 80% of the population of Classical Athens were slaves.
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Many anthropologists believe that the hammock dates back some 1,000 years to Central America, where the Maya and other indigenous peoples crafted them out of tree bark or plant fibers.
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Apple Pie is not uniquely American. Apples originated in Asia. The first recorded recipe for Apple Pie was in England in 1381.
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The Kuiper Belt is named for astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who published a scientific paper in 1951 that speculated about objects beyond Pluto.
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In the early days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy cancelled all public events due to a “cold”. Instead, he spent five hours discussing the crisis with advisers. Vice President Lyndon Johnson also cited a cold when he cut short his trip to Hawaii to return to Washington.
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Boris Yeltsin, a member of the Soviet Politburo, declared that “communism was a lie” after a visiting Houston supermarket in 1989. His visit is now an opera.
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull was the first woman in the United States to run for President as the nominee for the Equal Rights Party.
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In March of 1992, the Common Council of Syracuse, NY, passed a decree that any snow after Christmas Eve was illegal. It snowed two days later.
