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Campaigning for president, Roosevelt was spared almost certain death when 50 pieces of paper slowed an assailant’s bullet headed for his chest
A new poem by George Green
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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Steven Spielberg, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Tony Kushner talk about what it takes to wrestle an epic presidency into a feature film
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Their seances with the departed launched a mass religious movement—and then one of them confessed that "it was common delusion"
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A camping trip to the moon might seem fanciful, but 1960s advertisers were already promoting space tourism
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Why was Goody Garlick, accused of witchcraft in 1658, spared the fate that would befall the women of Massachusetts decades later
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Much to our chagrin, Rosey did not make it. But who did?
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In the fall of 1975 President Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts and a car accident. Then his life got really complicated
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How a makeshift show business memory aid became the centerpiece of modern political campaigning
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George and Mr. Spacely sneak off to watch the big game, but are caught in the act by Jane on the family's super-sized television
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The cure for lonely space missions? One astronomer proposed hiring astronaut concubines
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Blanchard was said to be afraid of riding in a carriage, but she became one of the great promoters of human flight
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Man's best friend has been fending off the the threat of a robot replacement for decades, not just on television
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The ideal future according to a ten-year-old: shorter school days, lower taxes, and lots and lots of robots
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When Upton Sinclair ran for governor of California in 1934, new media were marshaled to beat him
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Dino Brugioni explains how he and other CIA photo analysts located Soviet missiles just 90 miles away from the United States
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The Jetsons didn't invent the flying car, but it sure did a lot to cement the idea of the airborne automobile into the American imagination
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The true story behind the myth of Mrs. O'Leary and her cow
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Hugo Gernsback's predictions give us a look at the most radical of technological utopianism from the 1920s
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