How Long Does It Take to Roast a Turkey
Turkeys cook at different rates due to their size. When roasting a turkey in the oven, the bird should be completely defrosted and in a large pan for roasting. Set the oven to 325 degrees and cook...
View ArticleHow Long Does It Take to Grill Chicken
Placing chicken on the grill can take anywhere from 6 to 10 minutes on a side of chicken. A thin boneless breast will take closer to 6 or 8 minutes on a side while a piece of chicken that is…Read more ›
View ArticleHow Long Does It Take to Sober Up
Alcohol is absorbed into the body through the small intestine and removed through the liver. A rule of thumb in regard to alcohol processing is that it takes about one hour for a healthy liver to...
View ArticleHow Long Does It Take Water to Boil
The altitude, salinity of the water and other conditions affect the boiling time for water. In a pot on the stove, you can expect water to boil in 10 to 20 minutes. In the microwave, water will boil in...
View ArticleHow Long Does It Take a Dog to Have Puppies
The gestation period for a dog expecting puppies is 60 – 70 days, averaging about 63 days. This is roughly 9-10 weeks of waiting for the puppies to arrive. In comparison, humans have a gestation period...
View ArticleHow Long Does It Take Birth Control to Work
Birth control begins working the first day you take it, but you are not completely protected from pregnancy until you’ve taken birth control pills for about three weeks. Use an alternative form of...
View ArticleHow Long Does It Take to Digest Red Meat
Despite rumors of taking days or even years to digest red meat, steaks and hamburgers truly only take the same 24 hours to digest that other foods do. Red meat takes 24 hours to process completely...
View ArticleHow Long Does It Take to Gain Weight
Gaining weight is a simple matter of eating more calories than you burn. Your body burns a set number of calories every day just to stay alive and additional calories when you exercise or go about your...
View ArticleHow Long Does It Take to Lose Baby Weight
The majority of your baby weight will fall off almost of its own accord in the first six weeks following delivery if you gained the recommended amount of weight. The remaining 5-15 pounds will take...
View ArticleHow Long Does It Take to Tan
If you’re tanning in the sun, it can take as little as fifteen minutes to get a bit of a suntan on exposed skin. The length of time required for a tan depends on your global location, the position...
View ArticleThe Angel of Budapest
In the autumn of 1944, the fate of Budapest’s Jews hung in the balance. Six months previously, uncertain of the intentions of their hitherto loyal Axis ally, the Germans had occupied Hungary, bringing...
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The Most Popular Articles of 2016
Below are the ten most popular articles published on historytoday.com during 2016. For more great history writing, download our Best of 2016 special via the History Today app. The Strange Afterlife of...
View ArticleRefugees and the Spanish Civil War
Today’s wave of desperate asylum seekers fleeing the Middle East and North Africa is sometimes seen as a return to the late 1940s, when millions were set adrift by the unprecedented violence of the...
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Are oaths inclusive or exclusive?
‘Oaths are but words, and words but wind/Too feeble implements to bind’, Samuel Butler suggested in his Restoration satire Hudibras. It was to such ‘feeble implements’ however, that Sajid Javid, the...
View ArticleMeiji Modernist
Get up, get up!’ Lying on the ground sweating and bleeding next to his bicycle – ‘that machine’, as he ruefully referred to it – his cycling instructor heckling from the sidelines, the young Japanese...
View ArticleThe Perils of Piety
In November 1164, at the height of his dispute with Henry II, Thomas Becket crossed the Channel and went into exile in France. Taking refuge at the Burgundian abbey of Pontigny, the Archbishop of...
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Utopia: a voyage of exploration
A nondescript modern house occupies a corner site on Naamsestraat, just opposite the late-Gothic University Hall in Leuven, which still serves as academic offices. During term-time in this capital of...
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The world according to Churchill
Churchill’s view of Britain’s role in the world did not go around in circles, it linked them. The circles in which Britain needed to play a role and upon which its influence depended were Europe, the...
View ArticleWilliam ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody dies
The ultimate entertainer, ‘Buffalo Bill’ was as much showman as he was frontiersman and helped create a fantastical image of the Wild West. Born to a farming family on February 26th, 1846, Cody spent...
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Make America Great (Britain) Again!
When the Constitutional Convention adjourned in September 1787 and the delegates streamed down the steps of Independence Hall, one of their number, Benjamin Franklin, suddenly found himself under...
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