Man's Best Friend - HISTORY

The modern dog descends from the domestication of wolves during the Ice Age.

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Methane trapped in millennia-old ice cores helps to explain the causes of the Ice Age that descended on the planet around 10,000 B.C.

Could the ice sheet and low sea levels of the last great Ice Age have helped early humans travel from Europe to North America around 10,000 B.C.?

During the 1944 presidential campaign, the Democratic Party, knowing that the health of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was fading, chose Harry Truman as their candidate for Vice President.

After some misinterpreted comments by President Eisenhower about Nixon that JFK used in a campaign ad against his opponent (Nixons Experience), Eisenhower fully endorses Nixon. But it was too little, too late. JFK won the election, by a slim margin.

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