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Learn how Kepler's laws analyze ellipses, eccentricity, and angular momentum as part of the physics of the solar system
Learn about Allied and Axis leaders, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and the dropping of atomic bombs
Explore five questions about Shakespeare's life
Discover five famous firsts achieved by women
Explore the roles of Marie Curie, Mabel St. Clair Stobart, and Aileen Cole Stewart in World War I
Study the causes of and fallout from the Titanic's striking an iceberg and sinking in the Atlantic Ocean
Learn about eighteenth-century monarch Queen Anne of Great Britain
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Top Questions: Thomas Hobbes
What's the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?
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Top Questions: Golgi apparatus
Top Questions: Monroe Doctrine
Learn about the change in U.S. foreign policy declared in the Monroe Doctrine of 1823
Learn about Malcolm X's life and role in the Civil Rights Movement
Learn about the first and second Opium Wars between China and Great Britain in the mid-1800s
Learn about Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1960 novel
To Kill A Mockingbird
Learn about the origins and evolution of the political philosophy of liberalism
Learn about historical and contemporary nationalist ideology
Learn about the origins and positive aspects of democratic governments
Learn about the early Christian martyr Saint Peter the Apostle
Learn about the early Christian theologian St. Augustine of Hippo
Learn about the American-written Open Door trading policy implemented in China for the first half of the twentieth century
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Top Questions: Vladimir Lenin
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Britannica Insights: Coronavirus and the Environment
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Just the Facts: Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Great Depression facts
EB Presents: The History of the Armenian Genocide
Key Points: Gulf of Tonkin Incident
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The History of Pride Month
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Juneteenth
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What Happened: Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
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Top Questions: David Hume
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Top Questions: John Milton
Top Questions: Pullman Strike
Celebrate the anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the Moon
Britannica Insights: Renewable Energy and the Coronavirus Pandemic
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Just the Facts: Oktoberfest
Just the Facts: Winter Solstice
Explore V-J Day and the end of World War II
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World War II Explainer: Utah Beach
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research and the coronavirus pandemic
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Christmas: Did You Know?
Just the Facts: Thanksgiving
Women's suffrage explored
What if the Cold War was not so cold?
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Britannica World War II Infographic Explainer: Obstacles at Omaha Beach during the Normandy Invasion
Britannica World War II Infographic Explainer: German chain of command in western Europe
In Memoriam: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
EB Insights: Hurricanes
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Britannica World War II Infographic Explainer: Hiroshima bombing
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EB Insights: U.S. Supreme Court
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Britannica World War II Infographic Explainer: Battle of Midway
Who Was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
A Brief History of German Music
EB Insights: Curiosity Day
Whisky Tasting with Scots!
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What Pop Culture Got Wrong About Catherine the Great
What Pop Culture Got Wrong About Abraham Lincoln
Britannica's 2020 Year in Review
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