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George Winter/Wikimedia CommonsA portrait of Frances Slocum from 1839. In 1778, Delaware Indian warriors raided a white settlement in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. When they left, they carried off bundles of bread and sugar and a five-year-old girl named Frances Slocum.

In the 17th century, historys first speculative bubble popped. Over a period of months, Dutch traders had invested more and more money into tulip bulbs, believing the exotic flowers would make them a fortune.

To this day, Julia Child is remembered for her love of French cooking and her TV show that brought fine cuisine to the masses. Even more than her exquisite cooking, her sing-song voice and contagious enthusiasm endeared her to fans around the world.

The Germans fired some 1 million shells on the first day of battle alone. Like this gallery?Share it: Spanning 303 days from Feb. 21 to Dec. 18, 1916, France's Battle of Verdun was not only the longest battle of World War I, but also the longest in all of modern military history. The length of

In his iconic role on Star Trek as Scotty, James Doohan inspired a whole generation of real-life aeronautical engineers. But many of those who idolize him dont even know about his real-world heroic exploits as one of the 14,000 Canadian soldiers who landed on the shores of Normandy during World War II.