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Lasting just seven months and nineteen days in 1898, the Spanish-American War was fought mostly in the waters of the Caribbean around Cuba, but also in the Philippines. The Spanish-American War officially ended with the Treaty of Paris signed on December 10th, 1898.

As detailed by Adolf Hitler’s personal physician, Nazi high command and soldiers on the frontlines were taking methamphetamines and other performance-enhancing stimulants. Hitler, Göring and other officers also consumed morphine and other opiates.

Annie Oakley was born in 1860 and soon became an expert marksman while hunting in the Darke County, Ohio region. After besting professional sharpshooter Frank Butler, the pair of gunslingers would get married and travel the world as competitive sharpshooters.

Despite the Silk Road’s obvious link to the trade of Chinese silks, the term “Silk Road” wasn’t coined until 1877. From commodities like vegetables and leather to intangibles like language, culture and philosophy, the Silk Routes were operational from 130 BCE to 1453 when trade with China was banned by the Ottoman Empire.

Weather forecasting has gradually grown in sophistication from its history of almanac algorithms and crowdsourced weather observations to more accurate predictive modeling.

Boxing day traces back to a Charles Dickens reference to the holiday in 1833, but its origins are widely disputed. Today, the holiday is known as a day of charity, family, and sporting events.

Albert Einstein, educated in Physics and Math, had his “marvelous year” of theoretical productivity in 1905, catapulting him into the spotlight of intellectual fame and professorship until his death in 1955.