In a 1998 paper in Environmental History, Scott Dewey argues that unions were a key force for the emerging cause of environmentalism in the 1950s and '60s.

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Before The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien was a philologist, a specialist in historical texts.

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Ludwig van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany.

The populations of the nine species of Indian vultures began to plummet in the 1990s

The "special relationship" between the United States and the United Kingdom followed a very long century of special enmity.

Scientists have a way to follow baby sea turtles during their frantic first hours of life.

What is the health impact of plain cigarette packaging?

Guglielmo Marconi successfully made the first transatlantic radio transmission on December 12, 1901.