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This is how history is alive today! Our goal is to provide you with a fun way to learn the history that matters in small bites.

The intent of this new site is to bring you fun snippet of history that have relevance to our daily lives. We are surrounded by objects, sayings, behaviors, and traditions that are a direct result of millennia of evolution of the human experience . We hope that through this site you will learn something about why we are who we are in a non-boring, fun way.

And let’s face it, you might impress your friends with these new snippets of knowledge in the process!

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