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Following years of haggling over its provenance, a celebrated statue once identified as Aphrodite, has returned to Italy
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As Union generals came and left, personalities clashed and Southern farmers set fire to their fields
Momentous or Merely Memorable
To every thing there is a season
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The 70th anniversary of the completion of the South Dakota monument prompts a look back at what it took to create it
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Some scientists are both great researchers and fine human beings. Ron Greeley was one of them
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Henry Johnson suffered 21 wounds and rescued a soldier while repelling an enemy raid in the Argonne Forest in 1918 but died 11 years later a forgotten man
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The famous inventor envisioned a future of inexpensive, prefabricated concrete homes
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While Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire were fighting World War I, two Afghans opened up a second front in an Australian outback town 12,000 miles away
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After a brutal postseason, can London finally beat New York City?
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Charles Blondin understood the appeal of the morbid to the masses, and reveled when gamblers took bets on whether he would plunge to a watery death
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How do people decide what does or doesn't look futuristic?
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In 1782, an unknown French engineer offered an invention better than radar: the ability to detect ships hundreds of miles away
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Advertisers in the 1940s promised American consumers that they would be rewarded for their wartime sacrifices on the homefront
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The inventors' battle over the delivery of electricity was an epic power play
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The innovator wasn't just this generation's Thomas Edison, he was also its Walt Disney
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The British monarch was present when a solicitor demonstrated one of the earliest audio recording devices. But did she really say "tomatoes"?
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The historian discusses the ecological impact of Columbus’ landing in 1492 on both the Old World and the New World
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