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February 24, 2026 Breaking

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Common Water Contaminants and Their Potential Health Risks

Many substances can be present in drinking water, either as part of water treatment or from environmental contamination, and some may pose health risks. Chlorine and Chloramine: Thes...

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February 6, 2026 Breaking

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CDC revises reporting methodology for adverse drug reactions

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Atlanta · Georgia · United States

CDC revises reporting methodology for adverse drug reactions On February 20, 2026, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced revisions to its reporting meth...

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February 15, 2024 Politics

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Sackler family dispute over responsibility for opioid crisis

Stamford · Connecticut · United States

Sackler family dispute over responsibility for opioid crisis On February 15, 2024, legal filings and testimony related to bankruptcy proceedings involving Purdue Pharma revealed internal...

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December 1, 2019 Breaking

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COVID-19 Pandemic

Huanan Seafood Market · Wuhan · Hubei · China

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global outbreak of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, first identified in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. The World Health Organization (WHO) was notified on December 31, ...

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December 15, 2017 Breaking

Barry and Honey Sherman Murdered In Toronto

Toronto · Ontario · Canada

Barry and Honey Sherman Murdered In Toronto Canadian billionaire pharmaceutical executive Barry Sherman, 75, founder of Apotex Inc., and his wife Honey Sherman, 70, were found dead in th...

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May 9, 1960 Breaking

The Birth Control Pill: History, Key Figures, and Usage Trends

United States

The birth control pill was developed in the mid-20th century as a result of combined efforts by scientists, doctors, activists, and funders. The idea of an oral contraceptive was strongly...

October 1, 332 BC Wars & Conflicts

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Alexander the Great Travels Through Palestine

Ancient City of Gaza · Gaza City · Gaza Strip · Palestine

Alexander the Great Travels Through Palestine In October 332 B.C., during his campaign against the Persian Empire, Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, passed...

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International Recognition of Albania

29 July 1913 — The Great Powers recognize an independent Albanian principality. The borders they establish leave substantial Albanian-speaking populations outside the new state, including...

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Serbian Empire Expands Into Albanian Lands

c. 1343–1355 — Stefan Dušan's Serbian Empire expands across much of Albania, Epirus and Macedonia. After Dušan's death, the empire fragments and local noble families increasingly establis...

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Via Egnatia Crosses the Balkans

c. 146–120 BCE — Roman engineers develop the Via Egnatia from the Adriatic coast through Macedonia toward Byzantium. Dyrrachium becomes one of the principal western gateways of the route....

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The Ptolemaic Kingdom

305–30 BCE — The Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty rules Egypt after the fragmentation of Alexander's empire. Its kings present themselves simultaneously as Hellenistic monarchs and Egyptian p...

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Bardylis

Powerful Illyrian ruler of the 4th century BCE who built a kingdom capable of challenging Macedonia.

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Powerful Illyrian Kingdoms Emerge

4th–3rd centuries BCE — Several Illyrian dynasties consolidate larger kingdoms across the western Balkans. Their rulers compete with Macedonia, Epirus and Greek coastal cities while becom...

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More Than Five Thousand Years of State History

c. 3100 BCE–2026 CE — Egypt has been governed by native pharaohs, Nubian kings, Persians, Macedonians, Romans, Byzantines, Arab caliphates, Fatimids, Ayyubids, Mamluks, Ottomans, Muhammad...

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Alexander the Great

Macedonian king whose conquests spread Greek language and culture across a vast Hellenistic world.

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Balkan Wars

1912–1913 — Greece expands dramatically, gaining Thessaloniki, much of Macedonia, Epirus and several Aegean islands.

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How Did Macedon Transform the Greek World?

Follow Philip II and Alexander from city-state politics into the Hellenistic world.

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Philip II of Macedon

Macedonian king who transforms his army and brings most Greek city-states under Macedonian dominance.

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Prespa Agreement

17 June 2018 — Greece and its northern neighbor agree to resolve the long-running name dispute through the name North Macedonia.

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The City-States Exhaust Themselves

Repeated wars weaken the major poleis and create opportunities for Macedonian expansion.

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Thousands of Years — Many Different Greeces

Mycenaean kingdoms, poleis, Macedon, Rome, Byzantium, Ottoman rule and the modern state belong to one landscape but very different political worlds.