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Jesus Christ didn't need fancy churches, but thank...  ...t of the church was even burnt during the Spanish Civil War . Construction of La Sagrada Familia was restarted...  ...yle) shaped like ... Darth Vader!How did the Star Wars villain get there? Turns out in the 1980s, the Ca...

The following is reprinted from Uncle John's...  ...ndell Holmes called taxes “the price we pay for civilization .” But few things provoke more outrage in people...  ...of the tax? To help pay for the Spanish-American war …in 1898. Phone service was so rare at the time...  ...t Americans. But the tax persi...

1. The SPAM® MuseumOutside the Spam Museum. (I...  ...merica's favorite tinned meat. But vacationers be warned : In addition to major holidays, the museum will b...  ...92.Visitors are treated to exhibit that include a Civil War embalming display and a replica of a turn-of-the-...

You’d think that a philosopher could r...  ...outside his fantasies.Though he fancied himself a warrior and a ladies’ man, Nietzsche’s milita...  ...sell was a leading intellectual voice against the war in Vietnam.9. Michel Foucault, the Marilyn Manson...  ...ous of institutions, in works such...

While you're here, please take a look at Neatorama...  .... Death by Jury Demonstration After the Civil War , controversial Ohio politician Clement Vallandigh...

The Harem and Palace of Zanzibar were destroyed in...  ...of Zanzibar were destroyed in the Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896. The Palace was never rebuilt, but the Ha...  ...f course) was later rebuilt. The World's Shortest WarThe Anglo-Zanzibar war , also known as the world's short...