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      Don Rauf

      Don Rauf

      Joined: Mar 21, 2016

      Don Rauf writes regularly for Health Day and is the author of more than 30 nonfiction books including Killer Lipstick and Other Spy Gadgets, Simple Rules for Card Games, Modern-Day Serial Killers, Time-Life American Inventions: Big Ideas That Changed Modern Life, and The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Monique, and son, Leo.

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      10 Pivotal Facts About the French and Indian War

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      9 Surprising Secrets from Vancouver History

      The Seattle skyline.

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      The Great Farini, Canada's Most Fascinating Man

      For William Leonard Hunt, life was a high wire act.

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      Was Canada's Longest-Serving PM Also Its Strangest?

      William Lyon Mackenzie King may have gotten some of his best advice from dead people, his dogs, and …. shaving cream.

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      10 Ways to Drink In New York City History

      Many of the city’s venerable watering holes are veritable museums, with the bonus of booze.

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