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Mark Twain prowled the rough-and-tumble streets of 1860s San Francisco with a hard-drinking, larger-than-life fireman
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Major Taylor had to brave more than the competition to become one of the most acclaimed cyclists of the world
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The Nobel Peace Prize winner talks about the secret weapon in her decades of struggle—the power of Buddhism
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In 1912, Jim Thorpe became the greatest American Olympian of all time, but not if you ask the IOC
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Rudolph Valentino fought a long battle against innuendo about his masculinity right up until he died. But now he seems to have won
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The spaghetti-slinging robot drew crowds at Grazie’s Italian Restaurant in Tokyo
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In 1912, a family of six was murdered by ax in the little town of Villisca, Iowa. Might these killings be linked to nine other similar crimes?
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Food writer Ruth Reichl looks at the impact of the famous chef's partnership with her husband Paul
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Instead, Etta Shiber, a widow and former Manhattan housewife, helped smuggle stranded Allied soldiers out of Nazi-occupied in Paris
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Robert Caro, the esteemed biographer of Lyndon Baines Johnson, talks on the Shakespearean life of the 36th president
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She entered the brothel business without apology and set out to become the best madam in America
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TR’s rough ride as New York’s police chief shaped the man who became president just six years later
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The plot to kill Michael Malloy for life-insurance money seemed foolproof—until the conspirators actually tried it
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The champion golfer was critically injured in 1949—and went on to the most dominant phase of his career
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The founder of Rhode Island often helped out the early colonists in their dealings with Native Americans
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John Harlan championed racial justice on a hostile Supreme Court. Robert Harlan, a freed slave, achieved renown despite the court's decisions
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She was young, married and a mother. But after her husband died in battle against the Nazis, she became a secret agent for the British
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Seventy years after the day that lives on in infamy, the soldiers stationed at Pearl Harbor recall their experiences
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