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NASA and the Development of Air Traffic Control
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Anna Kingsley
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In 1811, a plantation owner in Spanish East Florida signed a manumission paper, officially freeing his 18-year-old wife, a Senegalese woman. He assured Spanish authorities of her “nicety .. show full overview
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The Last Great Explorer: Richard Byrd
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Legendary Luck: Timothy Dexter
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Mystery of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, March 16, 1962
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Naked Commandos: Burma, 1945
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January 17: This day In History
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Today is January 17, and what happened this day in history? Well, as usual, quite a lot. So to highlight the flow of history, instead of talking about one event, I decided to talk about .. show full overview
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The SS Cimbria Disaster
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The Mad Bomber of New York City
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January 24: This day In History
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Frank Sinatra and the 1981 Chrysler Imperial
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One of the most ambitious flops of the malaise era was what one automotive historian called “ a spectacular miss of Hollywoodian proportions,” despite a marketing campaign that included none other than the "Sultan of Swoon."
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The "Big Blow" of 1921
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Sinking of USS St. Augustine
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Once one of the most luxurious private yachts in the world, the USS St Augustine was not built for war. But her loss is symbolic of the everyday risks taken by those who served.
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The Extreme Weather on National Weather Forecaster's Day.
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Two Pairs: Shoe Rationing During WWII
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On 7 February, 1943 the pain of shortages reached the average American's feet.
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Wreck of the Goodyear Blimp Columbia, 1932
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USS Texas at Iwo Jima
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This Day in History: February 14
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On February 14, history has served up more than chocolate.
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Demon Photographer: Adrian C. Duff
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One hundred and twelve years ago this month a pioneering aviator took on a challenge to photograph New York City from the air. His solution was to strap pontoons onto his Wright flier .. show full overview
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The Enigma Tornado Outbreak of 1884
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B-47 Nuclear Accidents 1956
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During the decade 1950 - 1960, US strategic thinking and the capabilities and limitations of our military arsenal drove the establishment of new bases on foreign soil, a development that .. show full overview
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This Day in History: February 26
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CSS Nashville
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Wellington Train Avalanche: 1910
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On March 1, 1910, high up in the Cascade mountains, winter snows the week before had stalled trains along the Great Northern Railway between Spokane and Seattle. Stranded passengers had .. show full overview
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This Day in History: March 6
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It is March 6th, and 549 years ago today Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born in the Republic of Florence. Known simply as Michelangelo, he was a sculptor, a painter, an .. show full overview
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Hugh Mulcahy: Baseball and the Second World War
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Hugh Mulcahy represented an important first for Major League baseball, and became a symbol of both the character, and sacrifice, of what has been called The Greatest generation.
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Manuel Herrick: the "Okie Jesus Congressman."
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13 March, 1989 Geomagnetic Storm
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This Day in History, March 15
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The Lowdown Murder of Morgan Earp
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1948 Tinker Air Force Base Tornadoes
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Only a handful of tornadoes each year cause loss of life and/or significant property damage- and such storms are certainly a significant part of American history. But a particularly .. show full overview
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Death of Decatur
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Alexander Hamilton's death did not put an end to the practice of dueling in America. Although nearly forgotten today, another duel sixteen years later shocked the nation as much or perhaps even more.
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Mercury and MESSENGER
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Mercury is the least studied and most difficult to reach and observe of the inner planets, making the two missions that have visited the crater-pocked planet history that deserves to be remembered.
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Cherry Tree Diplomacy
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The cherry trees of Washington D.C. are often described as a symbol of friendship between the United States and Japan. The situation was actually rather more complex. In fact, the trees .. show full overview
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The Ship That Torpedoed Itself: HMS Trinidad
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On March 29, 1942 the conditions of weather, sea and combat on the high seas resulted in a desperate battle, and for the light cruiser HMS Trinidad, a shocking turn of events.
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This Day in History: April 1
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It is April fools day, a day on which you need to exercise skepticism regarding even the most serious channels. But real things do happen on April 1st. In fact, quite a few things have happened on this day in history.
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The Knickerbocker Athletic Club Murders
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The Manhattan Athletic Club, once located on the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and 45th street, was, in its brief period, one of the most exclusive and successful athletic clubs in .. show full overview
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The Great Onion Scandal
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Onions are the only agricultural product where commodity futures cannot be traded in the United States. It all has to do with two men in Chicago, and a whole lot of onions.
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Eclipse Mania: 1918
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Newspapers started reporting that the eclipse was coming months beforehand, giving advice on the best places to travel to catch the “path of totality.” Scientists prepared their .. show full overview
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RAAF Hero: The 'Firebug'
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According to the Australian War Memorial, 101 Australians have received the Victoria Cross. Among those was Flight Lt. William Ellis Newton of the Royal Australian Air Force, whose flying earned him the nickname “Firebug.”
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J J Webb: Lawman to Outlaw
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On the American frontier, the line between lawman and criminal could be thin. And perhaps no character of the wild west demonstrated that more than John Joshua Webb. If you don’t know .. show full overview
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Forgotten: the Lost Crew of RMS Titanic
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1981: Whiskey on the Rocks
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John Hunt Morgan and the "Great Raid."
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A Sweet History of Saccharin
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The First Cross Country Family Road Trip
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Before interstate highways, before gas stations were common, when large swaths of the middle US were little more than tumbleweeds, the thought of trying to take your family across the US .. show full overview
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The War Against Tumbleweeds
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In the nineteenth century invaders from Russia took over vast swaths of the nation, threatening America’s very way of life in what has been described as one of the most rapid invasions .. show full overview
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This Day In History: April 29
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It is rather astounding how much has happened on April 29. Luckily, we have a way to describe that, owing to the April 29, 1852 publication of the first edition of British lexicographer .. show full overview
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Scandal: Apollo 15
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In June 1972, a scandal broke over the behavior of three of NASA’s astronauts. The Apollo 15 postal cover scandal seems little remembered today, but it rocked the nation at the time, .. show full overview
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Murder on Fletcher Ice Island
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In something out of a suspense movie, in 1970 a shooting on a nearly inaccessible ice island left a Navy research division desperately seeking answers- How do authorities deal with an .. show full overview
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The Siege of Charleston
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Nearly forgotten amid the Union victories of 1863 was the Union attempt to bring the war back to where it started: Charleston, South Carolina. The siege of Charleston became the site of .. show full overview
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1807 Bombardment of Copenhagen
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In 1807, with France ascendant and demanding that neutral nations choose a side, Britain feared that Denmark would join France and, for the second time in six years, prepared a fleet to .. show full overview
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Salacious Scandal of the Gilded Age: The Breckinridge-Pollard Affair
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In 1893 a sensational trial in the District of Columbia pitted a young woman against a powerful US Congressman. The salacious allegations captivated the nation, and went to the very .. show full overview
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Mystery: The Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce was an influential journalist, satirist, writer of poetry and horror whose works were said to have inspired authors as diverse as H.P Lovecraft and Earnest Hemmingway. .. show full overview
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Without a Trace: HMS Blenheim
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The losses of HMS Blenheim and HMS Java are just two of hundreds on the world’s oceans in the Age of Sail, and the fate of the two ships is mere speculation. Yet the disaster that took them both is history that deserves to be remembered.
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This Day In History: May 20
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The Chinese words for “520” sound very like Wo Ai Ni, the Chinese words for “I love you.” And thus May 20 has become an unofficial “Internet Valentine's Day” in China. May 20 has a .. show full overview
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A Brazen Theft: The Irish Crown Jewels
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The A-7D Brake Scandal
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This Day in History: May 29
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The 1303 Crown Jewels Burglary
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Wilikin of the Weald: A Robin Hood Story
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The 10th Mountain Division
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The 10th Mountain Division was among the last units to reach Europe in the waning days of the war against Nazi Germany. Yet their specialized training allowed them to have an outside .. show full overview
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This Day In History: June 7
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In 1753 June 7 influenced the history of, well, history when, an act of parliament created the first national public museum in the world, the British Museum. Today the museum’s eight .. show full overview
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Fala: America's Number 1 Dog.
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The Gulag Uprising of 1954
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Under Stalin, the Gulag system saw millions imprisoned, from true criminals to civilians who criticized the state. After Stalin's death, prisoners thought freedom was a possibility. When .. show full overview
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A Sticky History of Superglue
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Adhesives have been used for essentially the entirety of human history, but it wasn’t until the modern era that cyanoacrylates were discovered - twice - and mostly by accident. And the .. show full overview
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Today in History: June 17
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On June 17th, 1994, TV stations across the United States turned their attention to a low-speed chase involving a white Ford Bronco on the 91 Freeway in Los Angeles. But, shockingly, the .. show full overview
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1965 B-52 collision
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The Knight With the Iron hand
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Charlemagne's Elephant
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The Rome Poisoner Ring
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True crime with all the elements of a modern detective novel: intrigued by suspicious deaths, police hid in the home of a suspected murderer and waited. When the graying woman passed a .. show full overview
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Norway's WWII "Paperclip Resistance."
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A History of Ice Cream
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The Great Senate Scandal: William Blount
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Shipping Containers: The Box that Changed the World
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Mystery of the Missing Congressmen
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Classic Kitsch: Lawn Flamingos
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Two-wheeled warriors: Military Motorcycles
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Chaos at the Convention: The 1968 DNC
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Another Kind of Chaos: The 1972 Democratic National Convention
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The Bishop, the Pope, and the Pirates
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Set: The History of Concrete
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Disappeared Utterly: Congressman John Creely
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Montgomery's Ghost Army: Operation Bertram
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The Attempted Assassination of President Truman, 1950.
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A Most Insignificant Office: A History of the US Vice Presidency
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A Palace of Corn
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Fred Noonan: In Amelia's Shadow
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Apple Pie
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Pumpkin Spice and the Modern World
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Forgotten Service: The US Coast and Geodetic Survey in WWII
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British South American Airways' Lost Planes
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Myth and Reality: Polish Cavalry in 1939
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Assassination Attempts on President Ford, 1975.
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Sleep: A History of the Bed
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Notorious Nellie and the St Louis Baby Fraud
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The 1837 Canadian Rebellions
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Explosion at Sea: 3 USS Princetons
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Canada's Forgotten Hurricane 1775
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The deadliest disaster in Canadian history was the first hurricane in Canada’s recorded history. And, perhaps most surprisingly, the storm is nearly forgotten today.
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Strange Deaths of Medieval Royalty
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It was relatively common in the middle ages for Kings, royals, and various other titled men to die in combat, and they were at least usually expected to fight personally. Despite the .. show full overview
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Rome's Thermopylae
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In 192 B.C., rising Rome met a remnant of the empire of Alexander the Great on the storied ground of Thermopylae, nearly 200 years after the Spartans had made it famous fighting Persia. .. show full overview
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The Weird History of Grapefruit
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Grapefruit is weird even among other citrus fruits.
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Collision: RMS Olympic and HMS Hawke
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It was September 20, 1911 and RMS Olympic, the largest ocean liner in the world, was on its fifth voyage between the ports of Southampton and New York when she was struck in the side by .. show full overview
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Theodore Roosevelt's Medal of Honor
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There is, of course, a story behind every Medal of Honor awarded, and there is also the story of the medal itself. And those two stories intertwine in the story of the nation’s only .. show full overview
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Cornelius Vanderbilt's Vacation
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America was a dynamic place in the middle-nineteenth century, where even a descendent of an indentured worker, born into poverty, might become one of the richest men in America. And that man might then inspire the world, by going on vacation.
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When the US Government Tried to Control Hurricanes: Project Stormfury
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There was a brief period- actually more than two decades,- when the US government thought that they may actually be able to limit the awesome power of nature’s vortex. The ambitious "Project Stormfury" deserves to be remembered.
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A History of Toy Guns
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In the more modern era toy guns appeared, and in the nineteenth century toy guns began to proliferate, quickly becoming a thorny issue for parents, children, and the law.
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Myths, Monsters and the Mummy
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When the Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, was released by Universal studios in 1932 it was inspired by a real event, and drew upon a mix of ideas, some new, and some very old. So what is .. show full overview
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Pelorus Jack: Best Known Fish in the World
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One famous dolphin lived near the shores of New Zealand in the late 1800s, and swam alongside hundreds of ships, becoming a beloved figure to locals and foreigners alike, and described as ”the best known fish in the world.”
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Why your tomatoes are tasteless: Mechanical Harvesting
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Einstein’s Cows: Dreams That Changed History
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Motorcade Mishap: 1975 Presidential Limousine Accident
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Carbine Williams
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David Marshall “Carbine” Williams' story was made famous in the 1952 film starring James Stewart, but his legend has become somewhat larger than the real story. Still the unlikely story .. show full overview
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The Greatest Oil Well in the World: The Lakeview Gusher
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One strike was so spectacular that not only did it make fortunes, it’s spouting flow of black gold became a tourist attraction. The granddaddy of gushers, the Lakeview Gusher blew past .. show full overview
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The Forgotten Foundational Document: The Articles of Association
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The Articles of association were passed on October 20, 1774, two hundred fifty years ago. While often overlooked, they are both a critical part of the story, and a window into the colonial mind, that would eventually lead into open rebellion.
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Crocker Land: Search for the Lost Continent
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In 1906, a famed explorer saw something on the horizon that would lead an expedition of men to search for a magnificent land they hoped would be full of new and undiscovered treasures for science.
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Marines and Sailors Versus Pirates: The Quallah Battoo Expedition
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In 1832 president Andrew Jackson deemed it of very high importance that the people of Quallah Battoo knew who America was. The result was one of the US Navy’s least known military .. show full overview
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History and the Headless Horseman.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving, has been called “America’s First Ghost story." It is, perhaps, the story that most represents the Halloween season. But it also works in a lot of history, history that deserves to be remembered.
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Bullets and Booze: How WWII Changed America's Drinks
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Eighty-two years ago, on November 1, 1942, America's distilleries were faced with a second prohibition, this time coming from the War Production Board. No more liquor would be produced .. show full overview
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Hoaxes of Wild West Nevada
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Seaman: Meriwether Lewis' Dog
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Avocados: A History
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The "Great Blue Norther" of 11/11/11
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The Shortest War in History: The 1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War
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There were a great number of what have been called Queen Victoria's “Little wars.” The Anglo-Zanzibar war of 1896, was, possibly, the littlest among those.
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Hump: A History of Camels
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2024 is, the UN has proclaimed, the international year of the camelid. That may seem odd to Americans, whose, if having encountered them at all, most common close encounter with a camel .. show full overview
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Go! A History of Rock Paper Scissors
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There’s a good chance you don’t even remember exactly who taught you how to play, but play you almost certainly did. It might seem like the game has existed forever, but like all things, .. show full overview
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How do I land? Adventure in an F-86
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As airplanes go, the North American F-86 Sabre is as iconic as it gets. The fighter aircraft that dominated in the Korean war became an enduring symbol of the Jet Age and the Cold War. .. show full overview
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Mmmmm. Bacon.
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The human love of salt cured slices of heaven is nothing new. In fact, it is one of the world’s oldest cuts of meat, with a long and savory history.
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The Confederate Plot to Burn New York City
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Although not nearly as discussed as the battles and generals of the war, both the Union and the Confederacy engaged in robust programs of espionage during the US Civil War. These .. show full overview
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The Great Avalon Fire of 1915
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Catalina Island is a popular tourist destination that receives more than a million visitors each year. But the trajectory of the island and its only incorporated town, Avalon, was .. show full overview
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A History of Waffles
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Boss Tweed Busts Out
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Failure and Success: The US Space Program on December 6
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A History of Chewing Gum
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Theodore Roosevelt's Nobel Peace Prize
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On December 10, 1906 the president of the United States was awarded the Nobel Prize prize for peace. It was a controversial award. The award represents the unique time in history, the .. show full overview
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Fantastic Ancient Cities
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As audiences in the East were used to science finding fantastic new things, it hardly seemed impossible to a person in the 19th century that the country had once been inhabited by .. show full overview
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Murder and Saxophones: Adolphe Sax
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The Great Cross-Word Craze
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Stand at Elsenborn Ridge
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USS Jacob Jones: The First US Navy Destroyer Lost in Combat
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The Advent of Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines
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