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  • Columbine High Shootings - Provides information about the April 20, 1999, high school shootings that left 15 dead and 23 wounded. (Hits: 747 Rating: 6.40 Votes: 5) Rate It
  • Fall of Constantinople (1453) - An account of the siege and fall of Constantinople, brought down by the Ottoman Turks. The former seat of the Eastern Roman Empire and Eastern Christianity was renamed Istanbul and officially claimed for Islam. (Hits: 361 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
  • Fall of Roman Empire - In 476, Odoacer the Scirian deposes Romulus Augustus and resolves to rule independently, ending the western Roman Empire. (Hits: 473 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
  • Holocaust History Project - An archive of documents, photographs, recordings and essays regarding the Holocaust of World War II. (Hits: 558 Rating: 7.00 Votes: 2) Rate It
  • Holocaust Timeline: 1938-1945 - A comprehensive timeline with photographs concerning the Holocaust, in which 6,000,000 Jews lost their lives. (Hits: 370 Rating: 4.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
  • Invasion of the Mongols - The Mongol invasion of Islamic lands during the 13th and 14th Century has caused damage up until this day and also led to the decline of the Muslim leading edge in science and technology. (Hits: 279 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It
  • Jonestown Mass Suicide - Offers information about Jim Jones and the Jonestown mass suicide of 1978 where 638 adults and 276 children died. (Hits: 670 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It
  • Library of Alexandria Burning - Provides an account of the 47 BC burning of the Library of Alexandria, in which 400,000 scrolls containing the knowledge of the ancient world were said to have been destroyed. (Hits: 288 Rating: 6.50 Votes: 2) Rate It
  • Masada Mass Suicide (73 AD) - Masada is known as the site where 960 zealots perished when they committed mass suicide rather than surrender to the Roman Legion. (Hits: 359 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
  • Oklahoma City Bombing - Offers information about the bombing of April 19, 1995, in which 168 died. (Hits: 483 Rating: 7.00 Votes: 4) Rate It
  • Slavery History - Studies in the world history of slavery, abolition and emancipation. (Hits: 399 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
  • The Inquisition - The Catholic Church is investigating whether it should apologize for the Inquisition, in which innumerable victims lost their lives during the Middle Ages. (Hits: 289 Rating: 10.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
  • Tower of Babel - Offers a description of the abandonment of one of the greatest building projects of all times and the following cultural disaster. The Tower of Babel is described in the Bible and thought by archaeologists to have actually existed in Mesopotamia. (Hits: 324 Rating: 1.00 Votes: 1) Rate It
  • U.S. Embassy Bombings in Africa - Remembering the August 7, 1998, U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, in which 224 were killed and over 5,400 were injured. (Hits: 277 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It
  • Uganda Cult Murders - Details on the March 2000 cult murders of members of the Movement for the Restoration on the Ten Commandments in Uganda. Over 900 bodies have been found, making this one of the most deadly cult murders in history. (Hits: 350 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It

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