Retropod
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Retropod is a show for history-lovers, featuring stories about the past, rediscovered. Host Mike Rosenwald introduces you to history’s most colorful characters - forgotten heroes, overlooked villains, dreamers, explorers, world changers.
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The presidential inauguration that made everyone sick
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Earthrise
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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Hair peace. Bed peace.
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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The jazz queen who chose home over fame
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Dec 27, 2019 |
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Clara Barton, America's most famous nurse, broke boundaries to treat Civil War victims
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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The military's famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number
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Dec 25, 2019 |
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The 'Toy King' who never aspired to the throne.
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Dec 23, 2019 |
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Last Seen Ads
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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How 'Broadway Joe' redefined the NFL
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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The game show contestant who cheated his way to fame
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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How food found its way into the freezer
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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The day before the Chernobyl disaster
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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The most difficult job Robert Mueller ever had
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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Queen Arawelo
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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The nurse who picked up a rifle
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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George Taliaferro, the first black player drafted to the NFL
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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The summer men rebelled against their shirts
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Dec 09, 2019 |
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America’s forgotten Iranian hostage
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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A bridge of ice at Niagara Falls
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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The Soviet officer who stopped World War III
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Why isn’t lynching illegal?
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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A letter from home
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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The test that changed childbirth
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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A debate that went into extra innings: Can baseballs curve?
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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Benjamin Franklin's complicated relationship with turkeys
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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The cranberry crisis that changed how we see our food
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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How Anita Hill’s testimony led to the "Year of the Woman"
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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The man who filmed JFK's assassination
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Nov 22, 2019 |
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The 'Night Witches'
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Robert Morris, the creator of the subpoena
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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Lee Harvey Oswald's final hours before killing Kennedy
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Ketamine in the mainstream
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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The first 'Queen of the Air'
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Judy Garland and the long history of 'Me Too' in Hollywood
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Jim Crow and the rise of blackface
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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The policeman who arrested a president
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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A history of the U.S.-Mexico border
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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The godmother of the open office
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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The Wicked Bible
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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The Confederate spy who evaded capture
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Pinball’s sordid past
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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The last person to step foot on the moon
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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A history of hats in the House
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Tenure for life
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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How Lego took over the toy world
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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The researcher whose rats predicted the Internet
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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A brief history of presidents visiting troops in combat
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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William Howard Taft's housekeeper kept track of his weight
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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In 1939, the 'American Hitler' took the stage at Madison Square Garden
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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The astronomer who took gay rights to the Supreme Court
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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The first campus shooting
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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The origins of the Unknown Soldier
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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America and warfare were never the same after World War I
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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The campus massacre before Kent State
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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The presidential pardon the country never forgot
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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How the Greeks once used a lottery system to select government officials
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Mary Ann Van Hoof and her Marian apparitions
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Close encounters with the Capitol's Demon Cat
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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New York's mad bomber
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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The unstoppable Fannie Lou Hamer
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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The photographer and the busboy
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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The time America invaded Britain
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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Abraham Lincoln says he owes everything to his 'angel mother' and 'mama'
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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The search for the anonymous author of a 1996 political novel
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Woodrow Wilson's secret letters to another woman
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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The body of Emmett Till
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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The origins of the Waterloo teeth
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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In the 1850s, navigating Ice Alley was deadly for ships
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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How the teddy bear was born
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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The Saturday Night Massacre
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Sep 20, 2019 |
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How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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How a renovation made the Supreme Court a friendlier place
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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The heroine of Lime Rock Lighthouse
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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The assassin who wore braids and killed Nazis
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Colonel Blood, the scoundrel who tried to steal Great Britain's crown jewels
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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The rookie pilot who was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Between Lincoln and Washington, only one was a great poet
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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The Nazi stone
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Paul Jennings, the former slave who disputed a legend from history
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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Winnie and Nelson Mandela's marriage survived prison but not freedom
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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The dark history of the pill
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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Were the Duke of Windsor and Adolf Hitler friends?
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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The worst presidents
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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The surprise hurricane that devastated the Florida Keys
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Being a maverick almost stopped John McCain from becoming a public servant
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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LBJ's political bombshell
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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The most romantic day
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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The French aviators who almost beat Charles Lindbergh
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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The photographer who helped end child labor in America
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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The performance that saved Johnny Cash's career
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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When Olympic silver beats gold
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Meet Paul Manafort's century-old forefather, who also liked fancy suits
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Aug 19, 2019 |
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How Hollywood's first major blockbuster revived the KKK
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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The biscuit tin that protected the crown jewels
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Rosie the Riveter isn't who you think she is
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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Reagan's most historic speech took a few years to make an impact
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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How the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds began
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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The first congresswoman's vote
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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The day the nation's capital welcomed the KKK
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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The man and the coconut that saved JFK
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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The first daughters
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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The time a senator won an Emmy for grilling witnesses at a hearing
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Aug 05, 2019 |
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The fact and fiction of Prince Philip
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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What Operation Pied Piper taught us about family separations
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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The teen who tied a Virginia election
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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The books the presidents read
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Jul 30, 2019 |
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How God became part of the pledge
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Jul 29, 2019 |
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How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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The U.S. government recruited black men to watch them die
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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The femme fatale
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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The congressman who shot a waiter
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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The children's crusade
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Introducing Moonrise
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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The time Truman met with Stalin and it went well
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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Mrs. Graham
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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The storied past of Alderson federal women's prison
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Jul 16, 2019 |
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The deaf men who helped NASA send humans to space
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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The first shark attacks
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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The oldest surviving banjo recording
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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The Jedwabne massacre
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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The long-lost 'Laws of Baseball'
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Meet Yvonne Burke, the first congresswoman to give birth in office
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Jul 05, 2019 |
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Thomas Jefferson's last letter
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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The epic bender that launched America
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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The time we thought an asteroid might kill us all
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Suzanne Lenglen, the first goddess of tennis
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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The first pride parade
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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The rainless flood that destroyed a city
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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How Eleanor Roosevelt invented the modern idea of a first lady
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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The complicated story of Linda Brown and the fight for desegregated schools
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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The origins of the National Rifle Association
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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How a textile shortage led to the invention of the bikini
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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The man who won World War II
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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Oregon was America’s first and only state to begin as 'whites-only'
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Publishers hated ‘A Wrinkle in Time,' and Madeleine L'Engle never forgot the rejections
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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This security guard discovered the Watergate break-in, but nobody remembers him
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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A history of extreme makeovers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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Jun 14, 2019 |
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The unlikely start of the Boy Scout movement
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Eartha Kitt confronted the first lady and it nearly ruined her career
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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The 'temporary insanity' legal defense started with an affair
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Eisenhower’s famous speech to U.S. troops the day before D-Day
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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The painter who became the CIA’s master of disguise
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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The ax that killed Leon Trotsky
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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That time the CIA stole a Russian submarine
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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The pistols that almost fell from the sky
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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The rat that helped win the Cold War
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Jun 03, 2019 |
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The test that changed childbirth
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May 31, 2019 |
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Amid rising tension between the U.S. and Cuba, Hemingway's widow went on a literary rescue mission
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May 30, 2019 |
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Frank Lloyd Wright tried to create a perfect house for an imperfect world
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May 29, 2019 |
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Rising from ruin: The many rebuilds of Notre Dame
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May 28, 2019 |
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A debate that went into extra innings: Can baseballs curve?
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May 24, 2019 |
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How food found its way into the freezer
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May 23, 2019 |
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The man who helped create the first measles vaccine didn’t vaccinate his own son
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May 22, 2019 |
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Clara Barton, America's most famous nurse, broke boundaries to treat Civil War victims
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May 21, 2019 |
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Why Naval Academy students climb a greased up obelisk every year
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May 20, 2019 |
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The forgotten pioneers of the first American utopia
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May 17, 2019 |
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The game show contestant who cheated his way to fame
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May 16, 2019 |
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The unlikely beginning of paint-by-number
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May 15, 2019 |
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The jazz queen who chose home over fame
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May 14, 2019 |
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The most difficult job Robert Mueller ever had
|
May 13, 2019 |
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Anna Jarvis spent years fighting to create Mother's Day, then lost everything trying to protect it
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May 10, 2019 |
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John Brown's prophecy
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May 09, 2019 |
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The books presidents read
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May 08, 2019 |
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The original Alcoholics Anonymous book was auctioned for millions, but its author was never paid
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May 07, 2019 |
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The invention of sarin
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May 06, 2019 |
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May the Fourth be with you
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May 03, 2019 |
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Need a job? Ask Ulysses S. Grant.
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May 02, 2019 |
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Meet the Press
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May 01, 2019 |
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The mother who made George Washington miserable
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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The Sullivan brothers
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Elaine Brown, the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day was once just for daughters
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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These guys were college jocks, and then became presidents of the United States
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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The truth is out there
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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One broadcast helped turn Americans against the Vietnam War
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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Egg Roll
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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Chillicothe, Missouri: The town that invented sliced bread
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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The black power protest that shook the world
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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History's most fascinating misquote
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Hate the IRS? Blame Abraham Lincoln.
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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The Mouth of the South
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Hair peace. Bed peace.
|
Apr 11, 2019 |
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Queen Arawelo
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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The man who killed Bonnie and Clyde
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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Ketamine in the mainstream
|
Apr 05, 2019 |
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From handsaws to parades: D.C.’s cherry blossom trees weren’t always beloved
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Apr 05, 2019 |
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The day before the Chernobyl disaster
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Last Seen Ads
|
Apr 03, 2019 |
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Earthrise
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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George Taliaferro, the first black player drafted to the NFL
|
Apr 01, 2019 |
|
The first 'Queen of the Air'
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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A spy in the Confederate White House
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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The nurse who picked up a rifle
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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The 'Night Witches'
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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The extraordinary life of Civil War veteran Albert Cashier
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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The first black senator and America’s brief biracial democracy
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Mar 22, 2019 |
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Why isn’t lynching illegal?
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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Robert Morris, the creator of the subpoena
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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Judy Garland and the long history of 'Me Too' in Hollywood
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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A rich piece of scandal
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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The godfather of bracketology
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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To ban a 'Mockingbird'
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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The history of epic North Korean insults
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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Special delivery!
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Why Thurgood Marshall asked an ex-Klan member to help him make Supreme Court history
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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The glass ceiling
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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The woman behind Lisa Ben
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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The night America burned
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Was Mary Todd Lincoln a leaker?
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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The forbidden question
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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The best birthday card ever
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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The houses built by slaves
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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How are you, Grandmama?
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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The crooked picture
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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The Limping Lady
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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And the winner is...
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Feb 22, 2019 |
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What hath God wrought?
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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The ice queen
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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The electric rivalry
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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All the Presidents' Ghosts
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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The spy plane
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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Before the Lovings, another interracial couple fought to marry
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Dr. Spock
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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The first female Marine
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Philadelphia's plumbing revolution: wood pipes
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Jim Crow and the rise of blackface
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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The Wicked Bible
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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How the State of the Union went from speech to spectacle
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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Winifred Stanley, a forgotten equal pay pioneer
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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The Soviet officer who stopped World War III
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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How 'Broadway Joe' redefined the NFL
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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The godmother of the open office
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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The Confederate spy who evaded capture
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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The rise of supermarkets
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Jan 29, 2019 |
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How the Doomsday Clock came to be
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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Pinball’s sordid past
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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The man inside the minds of a million consumers
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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A history of hats in the House
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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The last person to set foot on the moon
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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How Martin Luther King Jr. got his name
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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Tenure for life
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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The hatchet wielding leader of the anti-alcohol movement
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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A bridge of ice at Niagara Falls
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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The only person Hitler loved
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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A history of the U.S.-Mexico border
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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A presidential emergency that didn't end well
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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How Lego took over the toy world
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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The summer men rebelled against their shirts
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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The researcher whose rats predicted the Internet
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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One of the greatest astronomers of her generation
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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How one World War II veteran lived to be a centenarian
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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A wooden mallet with a colorful history of being shattered
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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The rabble rouser who inspired Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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Mourning Bobby Kennedy
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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The story of the real Charlotte of ‘Charlotte's Web’
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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The day Martin Luther King Jr. died
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Dec 28, 2018 |
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Doughnuts, the most patriotic of the junk foods
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Dec 27, 2018 |
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Ida B. Wells, the woman who never gave up
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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Big Bird and the genius inside
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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The military’s famous Santa Tracker began with a wrong number
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Dec 24, 2018 |
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The Christmas Truce
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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A piece of punctuation that failed to leave its mark
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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President Grant fired his own special prosecutor
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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The first presidential press conference
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Dec 18, 2018 |
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The astronomer who took gay rights to the Supreme Court
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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The policeman who arrested a president
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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One of the ugliest speaker fights in congressional history
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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The evangelist and convicted cat burglar who galvanized gay rights
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Dec 12, 2018 |
|
In 1939, the 'American Hitler' took the stage at Madison Square Garden
|
Dec 11, 2018 |
|
The cranberry crisis that changed how we see our food
|
Dec 10, 2018 |
|
The 'Toy King' who never aspired to the throne.
|
Dec 07, 2018 |
|
America’s first black Catholic priest
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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John Adams was eulogized before his son even knew he died
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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George H.W. Bush was a president and a prankster
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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The unlikely friendship between George H.W. Bush and Dana Carvey
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Dec 01, 2018 |
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William Howard Taft’s housekeeper kept track of his weight
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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The National Christmas Tree
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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The trials and tribulations of being a cat
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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Then they came for me
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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A brief history of presidents visiting troops in combat
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Benjamin Franklin’s complicated relationship with turkeys
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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The Green Book
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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The origins of the Unknown Soldier
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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Mark Twain's complicated relationship with the typewriter
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Nov 16, 2018 |
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Food stamps were born out of a surplus of food
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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William Rehnquist's proposal to Sandra Day O'Connor
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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The first lady who couldn’t get her memoir published
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Joachim Ronneberg, the saboteur who crippled Nazi atomic bomb project
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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America and warfare were never the same after World War I
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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Wong Kim Ark's Supreme Court fight for birthright citizenship
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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How the Greeks once used a lottery system to select government officials
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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The makings of an electoral heist
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Rahm Emanuel, Howard Dean and the midterm elections of 2006
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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Fall back, spring forward
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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Mary Ann Van Hoof and the Marian apparitions
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Close encounters with the Capitol’s Demon Cat
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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How Pittsburgh's Mister Rogers talked to children about tragedy
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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New York's mad bomber
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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The sword pulled from history
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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A love supreme: Ruth Bader and Martin Ginsburg
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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The unstoppable Fannie Lou Hamer
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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The Sultan of Swat wasn’t always known as a slugger
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Big Bird and the genius inside
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Oct 22, 2018 |
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Woodrow Wilson's secret letters to another woman
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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The metamorphosis of Jackie O
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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The body of Emmett Till
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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The photographer and the busboy
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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The Romanovs, Russia's 'odious' autocratic family
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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The gory origins of the Waterloo teeth
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Oct 12, 2018 |
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How the teddy bear was born
|
Oct 11, 2018 |
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The first black female White House reporter held the powerful accountable on civil rights
|
Oct 10, 2018 |
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The teenage girl who caught a Nazi monster
|
Oct 09, 2018 |
|
The complicated history of swimsuits and Miss America
|
Oct 08, 2018 |
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The assassin who wore braids and killed Nazis
|
Oct 05, 2018 |
|
The surprising history of the 25th Amendment
|
Oct 04, 2018 |
|
In the 1850s, navigating Ice Alley was deadly for ships
|
Oct 03, 2018 |
|
America’s forgotten Iranian hostage
|
Oct 02, 2018 |
|
The heroine of Lime Rock Lighthouse
|
Oct 01, 2018 |
|
How accusations against Supreme Court nominees were once handled
|
Sep 28, 2018 |
|
The man and the coconut that saved JFK
|
Sep 27, 2018 |
|
Rosie the Riveter isn’t who you think she is
|
Sep 26, 2018 |
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The presidential pardon the country never forgot
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Sep 25, 2018 |
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How Anita Hill’s testimony led to the "Year of the Woman"
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Sep 24, 2018 |
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The thin-skinned president who made it illegal to criticize his office
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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The photographer who helped end child labor in America
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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Only half of George Washington’s Supreme Court justices showed up on time
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Sep 19, 2018 |
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Winnie and Nelson Mandela’s marriage survived prison but not freedom
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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The day the nation's capital welcomed the KKK
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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The search for the anonymous author of a 1996 political novel
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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The surprise hurricane that devastated the Florida Keys
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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The rookie pilot who was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
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Sep 11, 2018 |
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Abraham Lincoln says he owes everything to his ‘angel mother’ and ‘mama’
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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The story of the real Charlotte of ‘Charlotte's Web’
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Sep 07, 2018 |
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Roe v. Wade’s forgotten loser
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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The French aviators who almost beat Charles Lindbergh
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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The campus massacre before Kent State
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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The time the United States illegally deported 1 million Mexican Americans
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Sep 03, 2018 |
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The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners
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Aug 31, 2018 |
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Ida B. Wells, the woman who never gave up
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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How a Supreme Court clerk changed the decision on Clay v. United States
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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Colonel Blood, the scoundrel who tried to steal Great Britain's crown jewels
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Aug 28, 2018 |
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Being a maverick almost stopped John McCain from becoming a public servant
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Aug 27, 2018 |
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Paul Jennings, the former slave who disputed a legend from history
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Aug 24, 2018 |
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What Operation Pied Piper taught us about family separations
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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Reagan's most historic speech took a few years to make an impact
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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A president’s lions and the emoluments clause
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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How Harry S. Truman went from being a racist to desegregating the military
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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The long-lost 'Laws of Baseball'
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Aug 17, 2018 |
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The congressman who shot a waiter
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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The time Truman met with Stalin and it went well
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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Meet Paul Manafort’s century-old forefather, who also liked fancy suits
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Aug 14, 2018 |
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An aviation flop was a stamp collector’s dream and the U.S. Postal Service’s nightmare
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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How Mister Rogers talked to children and families about tragedy
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Aug 10, 2018 |
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The storied past of Alderson federal women’s prison
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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Rebels, turn out your dead!
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Aug 08, 2018 |
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The Saturday Night Massacre
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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The dark history of the pill
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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Meet Yvonne Burke, the first congresswoman to give birth in office
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Aug 03, 2018 |
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The unlikely start of the Boy Scout movement
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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How the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds began
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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The first campus shooting
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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How God became part of the pledge
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Jul 30, 2018 |
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How a textile shortage led to the invention of the bikini
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Jul 27, 2018 |
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The complicated story of Linda Brown and the fight for desegregated schools
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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The time a senator won an Emmy for grilling witnesses at a hearing
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Jul 25, 2018 |
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The rainless flood that destroyed a city
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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How a renovation made the Supreme Court a friendlier place
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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The Mountaintop
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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The most romantic day
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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The night America burned
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Jul 18, 2018 |
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All the presidents' ghosts
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Jul 17, 2018 |
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Don't mess with Harriet Tubman
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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The epic bender that launched America
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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A Supreme Court justice morally opposed abortion, but voted to legalize it
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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Eartha Kitt confronted the first lady and it nearly ruined her career
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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Oregon, America’s first and only state to begin as "whites-only"
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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How Eleanor Roosevelt invented the modern idea of a first lady
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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The time America invaded Britain
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Jul 06, 2018 |
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The teen who tied a Virginia election
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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Thomas Jefferson's last letter
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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The U.S. government recruited black men to watch them die
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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The deaf men who helped NASA send humans to space
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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That time we thought an asteroid might kill us all
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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The femme fatale
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Jun 28, 2018 |
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The first congresswoman’s vote
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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How Hollywood’s first major blockbuster revived the KKK
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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The first pride parade
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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The oldest surviving banjo recording
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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The worst presidents
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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Doughnuts, the most patriotic of the junk foods
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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The first shark attacks
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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Between Lincoln and Washington, only one was a great poet
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Jun 18, 2018 |
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This security guard discovered the Watergate break-in, but nobody remembers him
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Jun 15, 2018 |
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Thomas Jefferson’s iftar dinner and the long history of Ramadan at the White House
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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The biscuit tin
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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Before Loving, another interracial couple fought to marry
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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The Jedwabne massacre
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Jun 11, 2018 |
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Tennis's first goddess
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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The White House makeover
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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The Order of the Day
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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The “temporary insanity” legal defense started with an affair
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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History’s most fascinating misquote
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Mourning Bobby Kennedy
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Jun 01, 2018 |
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The black power protest that shook the world
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May 31, 2018 |
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LBJ's political bombshell
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May 30, 2018 |
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One broadcast helped turn Americans against the Vietnam War
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May 29, 2018 |
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The performance that saved Johnny Cash's career
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May 28, 2018 |
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Publishers hated ‘A Wrinkle in Time,' and Madeleine L'Engle never forgot the rejections
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May 25, 2018 |
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When Ronald Reagan visited a family targeted by the KKK
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May 24, 2018 |
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The Nazi stone
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May 23, 2018 |
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Elaine Brown, the first and only woman to lead the Black Panther Party
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May 22, 2018 |
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The man who filmed JFK's assassination
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May 21, 2018 |
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Princess Diana's final hours
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May 18, 2018 |
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The enigmatic Prince Philip - separating fact from fiction
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May 17, 2018 |
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Wallis Simpson, the last American divorcee who married a British royal
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May 16, 2018 |
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The truth is out there
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May 15, 2018 |
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John Brown's prophecy
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May 14, 2018 |
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She spent years fighting to create Mother's Day, then lost everything trying to protect it
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May 11, 2018 |
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The Sullivan brothers
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May 10, 2018 |
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Lee Harvey Oswald's final hours before killing Kennedy
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May 09, 2018 |
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To ban a "Mockingbird"
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May 08, 2018 |
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The original Alcoholics Anonymous book was auctioned for millions, but its author was never paid
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May 07, 2018 |
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May the Fourth be with you
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May 04, 2018 |
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The battle between Old Waddy and the press
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May 03, 2018 |
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Were the Duke of Windsor and Adolf Hitler friends?
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May 02, 2018 |
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Need a job? Ask Ulysses S. Grant
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May 01, 2018 |
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How the Doomsday Clock came to be
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Apr 30, 2018 |
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Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day was once just for daughters
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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These guys were college jocks - and then became Presidents of the United States
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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The only person Hitler loved
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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Philadelphia's plumbing revolution: wood pipes
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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Chillicothe, Missouri, the town that invented sliced bread
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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Barbara Bush’s remarkable commencement address
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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The day anti-Vietnam War protesters tried to levitate the Pentagon
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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The history of epic North Korean insults
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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Hate the IRS? Blame Abraham Lincoln.
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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The mother who made George Washington miserable
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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Why Thurgood Marshall asked an ex-Klan member to help him make Supreme Court history
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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A letter from home
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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Was Mary Todd Lincoln a leaker?
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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Winifred Stanley, a forgotten equal pay pioneer
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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The invention of sarin
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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The spy plane
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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The toughest job in politics
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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The day Martin Luther King Jr. died
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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The Mountaintop
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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The books the presidents read
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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Egg Roll
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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The girl who struck out Babe Ruth
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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The first daughters
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Mar 28, 2018 |
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Meet the Press
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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The man who won World War II
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Mar 26, 2018 |
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The children's crusade
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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The forbidden question
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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The crooked picture
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Mar 21, 2018 |
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Lawn wars
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Dr. Spock
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Mar 19, 2018 |
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Then they came for me
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Mar 16, 2018 |
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The godfather of bracketology
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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The Limping Lady
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Mar 14, 2018 |
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The first female marine
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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The trials and tribulations of being a cat
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Mar 12, 2018 |
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Fall back, spring forward
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Mar 09, 2018 |
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The glass ceiling
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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How are you, Grandmama?
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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The night America burned
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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And the winner is...
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Mar 05, 2018 |
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Special delivery!
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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The woman behind Lisa Ben
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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The houses built by slaves
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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How the NRA began
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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The rise of supermarkets
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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The Green Book
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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The ice queen
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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Mrs. Graham
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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The electric rivalry
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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All the president's ghosts
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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Don't mess with Harriet Tubman
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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When Olympic silver beats gold
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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The most romantic day
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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The best birthday card ever
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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What hath God wrought?
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Feb 12, 2018 |
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Introducing 'Retropod'
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Feb 07, 2018 |