Computing machines have dramatically redefined the human experience.

The spiritual and political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Twelver branch of Shia Islam, including that of the Alawite and Alevi.

The annual championship game of the National Football League (NFL). It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966, replacing the NFL Championship Game.

Following the onset of the Great Depression, FDR won the 1932 presidential election on a promise to give America a "New Deal" - public works, financial reforms, & regulations - to promote recovery for farmers, the unemployed, youth and the elderly.

Ideas events and decisions in American Education.

Clocks, calendars and the perception of time

The conflict between the papacy and the French crown leads to seven successive popes residing in Avignon rather than in Rome

Events surrounding perhaps the most macabre event in Church history

Saints recognized as having made a significant contribution to theology or doctrine through their research, study, or writing.

How and when the elements were isolated by modern chemists

"I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich." - Michael Faraday

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