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The Mummy's Curse: Tutankhamun's Tomb & the Modern-Day Media
Howard Carter's 1922 CE discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun was world-wide news but, following fast upon it, the story of the mummy's curse (also known as The Curse of the Pharaoh) became even more popular and continues to be in the present...

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Eastman's Account and Media Coverage of the Wounded Knee Massacre
Of the many first-person accounts of the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre, the report by Sioux author and physician Charles A. Eastman (also known as Ohiyesa, l. 1858-1939) is among the best-known. Eastman describes his experiences...

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Early Media Coverage of the Sand Creek Massacre and Continuing Controversy
The earliest reports on the Sand Creek Massacre (29 November 1864) characterized it as a great battle in which the Third Colorado Cavalry under Colonel John Chivington defeated a large force of armed Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors. By the...

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Burial of the Dead in Mass Grave After Wounded Knee Massacre
US soldiers place frozen corpses of Native Americans in a mass grave after the Wounded Knee Massacre of 29 December 1890. Photo by Trager and Kuhn, 1 January 1891, Wounded Knee, South Dakota Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division...

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Mass Hanging of Dakota Sioux in Mankato, Minnesota
Execution of the thirty-eight Sioux Indians at Mankato Minnesota, December 25, 1862. Print by Buffalo: Hayes Litho. Co., c. 1883. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the mass execution of 38 Native Americans in Minnesota for revolt against...

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Mass Grave, Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
An April 1945 photograph of a mass grave at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, a labour camp in Germany run by the Nazi SS. (Imperial War Museums)

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America's Largest Mass Execution: Dakota War 1862
This is the darkest chapter in Minnesota History. In Mankato, 38 Dakota were hanged in the largest mass execution in United States History. Just under Fort Snelling, over a thousand Dakota were held in a concentration camp where hundreds...

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The Holocaust, Genocides, & Mass Murder of WWII: Crash Course
During World War II, Nazi Germany undertook the imprisonment and summary execution of many of its own citizens, and citizens of the nations they occupied. One of the groups that came under assault was the European Jewish population. More...

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Making History - Mass production of olives for trade
Stone age people begin to produce a surplus of food so they can trade it to neighboring villages for food or products not available in their area

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Behistun Inscription
The Behistun Inscription is a relief with accompanying text carved 330 feet (100 meters) up a cliff in Kermanshah Province, Western Iran. The work tells the story of the victory of the Persian king Darius I (the Great, r. 522-486 BCE) over...