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In the 1920s, a French inventor devised an ingenious way to provide emergency medical assistance
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The world without the Great Depression looks a lot rosier in hindsight
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From the dead-ball era to the steroids era, the balance between pitchers and hitters has always been in flux
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As polio ravaged patients worldwide, two gifted American researchers developed distinct vaccines against it. Then the question was: Which one to use?
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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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America's longtime counterterrorism czar warns that the cyberwars have already begun—and that we might be losing
The art and science of looking ahead
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In 1950, a popular magazine depicted what an atomic bomb would do to New York City—in gruesome detail
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It is tempting to think of the German hyperinflation of 1923 as a uniquely awful event, but it pales in comparison to what happened in the 17th century
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Could futuristic technology have saved the milkman from extinction?
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The Big Easy's red light district had plenty of tawdriness going on—except when Ernest J. Bellocq was taking photographs of prostitutes
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A curator from the National Archives takes us through what the governing charter means
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Moving is a lot easier if you live inside a giant ball
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Custom in the Ottoman Empire mandated that a condemned grand vizier could save his neck if he won a sprint against his executioner
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Neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel explores the flourishing of culture in Vienna
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A 1981 book predicted that the soldiers of the future could be more like heavily armed policemen than a fighting force
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His 20-volume masterwork was hailed as "the most ambitious enterprise in publishing since the production of the King James Bible"
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In 1887, a painter was inspired by an idea: commemorate the everyday heroism of men, women and children who had lost their lives trying to save another's
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With video screens and remote control arms, any doctor could make a virtual housecall
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"Don't talk to me about X-rays," Edison said after an assistant on one of his X-ray projects started showing signs of illness. "I am afraid of them."
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