Today in History!

 On August 19, A.D. 14, Caesar Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, died at age 76 after a reign lasting four decades; he was succeeded by his stepson Tiberius.

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YES, I live in one of the “Happiest Cities in the U.S.!” Surprising list

The 5 Happiest Cities In America Are In One State & The Unhappiest Places Have One Thing in Common A working paper from professors from Harvard and the Vancouver School examined the happiness of cities based on data from a CDC study and weighted based on demographics and income, PolicyMic reports. Some might suspect that they’re…

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1911~Yale University history professor Hiram Bingham III found the “Lost City of the Incas,” Machu Picchu, in Peru.

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Today in history!

June 7, 1939 King George VI and his wife, Queen Elizabeth, arrived at Niagara Falls, New York, from Canada on the first visit to the United States by a reigning British monarch.  

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Today in History!

~1790 President George Washington signed into law the first U.S. copyright act.

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