Just 50 days before his reelection, Donald Trump took the time to hawk a new crypto platform. If the country does not build out its cryptocurrency ecosystem, “we’re not going to be the biggest, and we have to be the […]
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One of just two confirmed photographs of Abraham Lincoln (seated in center, facing the camera) at Gettysburg on the day of his address Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On November 19, 1863, near the site of the bloodiest battle of
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Introduction In April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory, triggering a military response from Great Britain. The British government, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was under immense political pressure to reclaim the islands swiftly. The
