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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some historical events are self-evidently a pretty big deal. The kind of happenings you don’t need context and a broad ...

Economic historians agree that the onset of the Industrial Revolution is the most important event in human history, comparable only to the adoption of agriculture with respect to material advancement.

History rarely unfolds in neat, isolated chapters. Sometimes, events that seem unrelated actually overlap in astonishing ways, creating coincidences that defy expectation. From political upheavals to ...