In 1939, Chief Henry Standing Bear requested a memorial be made in honor of Ta-sunko-witko, otherwise known as Crazy Horse, an Indian Chief of the Oglala band of Lakota. Work began in 1948, and is still being carved to this day!

Hundreds of years before the Aztecs, and slightly north of there, was Cahokia, the most important urban settlement of the Mississippian culture, with a population bigger than London and Paris at the time!

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If you're happy the United States has a Navy and Marines now, thank pirates!

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This week, Quick History takes a look at animals being put on trial, and executed, for doing animal things! Also covered in this episode, corpses being tried in court, as well as inanimate objects, and Deodand Law.

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Cities all over the world have a cable around them, maybe even yours, and unless you're Jewish, you don't have to worry about them.

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There's a 12-year gap of Jesus' life in the Bible, and nobody knows what Jesus did in that time... except for a small village in Japan.

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