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06/25/2026

The Beatles represented their country and performed All You Need Is Love.

Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World

Broadcasting of the first live global satellite television program: Our World

06/25/2026

06/23/2026

Your income is one of your most valuable assets. An illness or injury can stop a paycheck long before retirement, and employer coverage may not fully replace what you earn. Disability income insurance can help protect your lifestyle if work becomes impossible. Let’s talk about how to help protect what you work so hard for.

06/22/2026

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.

06/22/2026

Alan Greenspan, who started life as a shy, only child of a single mother, transcended the role of central banker, exercising extraordinary influence over American finance and commerce and enjoying unparalleled global stature during a period of remarkable prosperity. But by the time of his death, at age 100, the 2008 global financial crisis had recast his aura of technocratic omnipotence.

Former colleagues and Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman hailed Greenspan as the greatest central banker of all time when he finished 18½ years as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006. Just two years later, the financial crisis triggered an austere reappraisal of his record. His view that markets could effectively police themselves became a driving force of regulatory policy in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Greenspan devoted his professional life to understanding how the U.S. economy worked, first as a private-sector forecaster when America was emerging as the economic superpower following World War II. Later, as technology, global trade and financialization refashioned business, he achieved a level of fame and influence rivaled only by U.S. presidents. Greenspan, the second-longest-serving Fed chairman (just behind William McChesney Martin, 1951-1970), husbanded that power to build up the central bank’s political independence.

Greenspan was an enigma: a savvy political operator and ladies’ man who was also an introvert. He was a skilled saxophonist in a bebop jazz band who devoured books about titans of finance and industry while his bandmates smoked to***co and ma*****na between sets. An adviser to Republican presidents, he got along famously with President Bill Clinton and his senior economic advisers—all Democrats.

Greenspan is survived by his wife, the journalist Andrea Mitchell. In a statement, she said that Greenspan had died at their home on Monday from complications of Parkinson’s disease.

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06/21/2026

Happy Father’s Day to the dads, grandfathers, and father figures who lead with care, strength, and support. Wishing you a day of appreciation and time well spent with those who matter most.

06/21/2026

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Its first three articles entrench the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress; the executive, consisting of the President; and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. Articles Four, Five and Six entrench concepts of federalism, describing the rights and responsibilities of state governments and of the states in relationship to the federal government. Article Seven establishes the procedure subsequently used by the thirteen States to ratify it.

Since the Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended twenty-seven times. In general, the first ten amendments, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, offer specific protections of individual liberty and justice and place restrictions on the powers of government. The majority of the seventeen later amendments expand individual civil rights. Others address issues related to federal authority or modify government processes and procedures. Amendments to the United States Constitution, unlike ones made to many constitutions world-wide, are appended to the end of the document. At seven articles and twenty-seven amendments, it is the shortest written constitution in force. All five pages of the U.S. Constitution are written on parchment.

The Constitution is interpreted, supplemented, and implemented by a large body of constitutional law. The Constitution of the United States is the first constitution of its kind, and has influenced the constitutions of other nations.

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Its first three articles entrench the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is...

06/21/2026

Cyrus the Great captured Babylon in 539 BC and freed every captive held inside. No conqueror had ever done that before.

The city gates opened. Tens of thousands walked out — slaves, exiles, prisoners of war taken by Babylonian kings across generations. They were free to return to their homelands. Free to rebuild their temples. Free to carry their gods back with them.

This wasn't mercy in the way we think of it now. It was policy. Brilliant, calculated policy that would hold together the largest empire the world had yet seen.

Babylon had ruled Mesopotamia for centuries. Its kings had dragged entire populations back to the capital as spoils of war — craftsmen, priests, farmers, whole communities uprooted and resettled far from home. It was how you controlled a conquest. Break the old ties. Force the defeated to rebuild somewhere else, under your watch. The Babylonians were experts at it.

Cyrus was different. He walked into Babylon at the head of a Persian army and did the opposite. He issued a decree — pressed into a clay cylinder that still exists today — proclaiming that displaced peoples could go home. They could rebuild their temples. They could worship their own gods. The Persian Empire wouldn't stand in the way.

It wasn't sentiment. Cyrus understood something most ancient conquerors didn't: people who are allowed to go home don't rebel. People who get their temples back don't spend their energy plotting revenge. Let them keep their gods, their languages, their local leaders — and they'll pay their taxes. They'll send grain. They'll stop seeing you as the enemy.

The Persians governed an empire that stretched from the Aegean to the Indus. It was vast, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual. No single culture could hold it together by force alone. So Cyrus built something else — a system where local traditions were respected, where conquered peoples weren't erased. It worked. The Persian Empire lasted for two centuries.

The most famous group freed by the decree were the Judeans. They'd been exiled to Babylon decades earlier after Jerusalem fell. Now they were allowed to return. They carried their sacred texts with them. They began rebuilding the temple that had been destroyed. That single moment — Cyrus opening the gates — echoes through religious history. He's named in the Hebrew Bible as a figure chosen by God, the only non-Jewish king ever given that title.

But the Judeans weren't the only ones. Other peoples, other exiles, walked out of Babylon that same year. Their stories didn't survive in scripture, so we know less about them. But the decree didn't single anyone out. It applied to everyone.

The clay cylinder recording all this was discovered in Babylon in 1879. It's written in Akkadian cuneiform. The text is straightforward — almost bureaucratic. Cyrus describes entering Babylon without a battle, restoring the city's temples, and allowing displaced peoples to return home. There's no boasting. No grand rhetoric. Just policy, laid out in clay.

That cylinder sits in the British Museum now. It's been called the first declaration of human rights, though that's probably overstating it. Cyrus wasn't drafting universal principles. He was running an empire. But the fact remains: in 539 BC, the most powerful man in the world stood in a conquered city and chose not to enslave, not to deport, not to erase. He opened the gates.

History remembers conquerors for what they took. Cyrus is remembered for what he gave back.

The full story, and the clay decree that records it, are over at History Uncovered. Follow the page for more forgotten moments like this — the decisions that didn't make the textbooks, but changed everything.

🎨 Images are AI-assisted illustrations created to depict historical events.

06/19/2026

Juneteenth is a time to celebrate the resilience, solidarity and progress of the Black community.

06/19/2026

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, s*x, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations").

Powers given to enforce the act were initially weak, but were supplemented during later years. Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One (section 8), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment. The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, at the White House.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, s*x, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace....