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Ancient Discoveries
Machines Of the Gods (CC)  

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Ancient Discoveries
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Cities of the Underworld
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Cities of the Underworld
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Pawn Stars
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Pawn Stars
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today in history

HISTOR!CA
  • February 9, 1690

    French and First Nations allies made a retaliatory raid on Schenectady, NY, killing some 60 settlers.

  • February 9, 1830

    Furrier George Renfrew, owner of what became known as Holt Renfrew & Co., was born at Québec City.

After almost 50 years in power, a gravely ill Fidel Castro has handed the reins to his little known brother, Raul, and all of Cuba tenses for the reality of life after Fidel.

Fidel has outlasted ten U.S. presidents and in the process dictatorially shaped this small island nation into a global force unlike any other: a Third World nation that exports soldiers, doctors, and teachers to other emerging nations.

Now the struggle is at home: to withstand the inevitable onslaught of American interests and ideology After Fidel.