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How an Ex-Prisoner Invented M&M’s and Fought 30 Years to Save the Mars Company

Frank Mars was called a failure. After several attempts to start a candy company, he went bankrupt. Three times. Fortunately, each attempt brought him closer to inventing the Mars company, that now owns 11 billion-dollar brands. When he was just a young child, he caught polio: a highly infectious disease that can lead to paralysis,

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Why Fort Knox is Totally Forbidden

Fort Knox is a United States Army installation in Kentucky, south of Louisville and north of Elizabethtown. It is adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, which is used to house a large portion of the United States’ official gold reserves, and with which it is often conflated. The United States Bullion Depository, often known as Fort Knox, is a fortified vault building adjacent to the

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How To Tell Who Your Ancestors Were

An ancestor, also known as a forefather, fore-elder, or a forebear, is a parent or (recursively) the parent of an antecedent (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent and so forth).  Ancestor is “any person from whom one is descended. In law, the person from whom an estate has been inherited.”

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The Industrial Revolution | Mankind: The Story of All of Us (S1, E11) | Full Episode | History

The end of the Civil War allows Mankind to go into overdrive. This is an age of innovation, transformation, and mass production. People believe that “Anything, everything, is possible.” See more in Season 1, Episode 11, “Speed.” This is Episode 11, if you’d like to watch more episodes please visit History Channel’s Playlist on Youtube.

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