WASHINGTON (WTHR) — The Broadway smash hit "Hamilton" has boosted interest in the famous deadly duel between former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr. And now, for a ...
The death of former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton — resulting from his famous 1804 duel with Vice President Aaron Burr — did not end the vitriolic political discourse common in that era. But ...
Since Pierre de Coubertin revived the Olympic Games from ancient Greece in 1896, they have been held almost continuously every four years (with exceptions in 1916, 1940, and 1944 due to world wars).