Momentous or Merely Memorable
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On his voyage to the Americas in 1492, the explorer built a small fort somewhere in the Caribbean
In 1908, anything was possible
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Aeroplanes! Skyscrapers! The race to the North Pole! Mobile phones? Inventions, predictions and breakthroughs that propelled America into the modern age
Polar species heat up one of paleontology's great debates
Keeping Cool in Cretaceous Australia and melting-pot Marseille
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How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?
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Momentous or merely memorable
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Statesmen, soldiers and spies who made America and the way they lived
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's defining moment comes to life in an excerpt from Michael Korda's best-selling new biography
Readers respond to the October issue
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Paleontologist William Hammer hunts dinosaur fossils in the Antarctic
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As the Vietnam Memorial turns 25, we look back at a profile on its creator, Maya Lin
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The ten most significant discoveries in the past 20 years
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A Q&A with hieroglyphs expert Janice Kamrin
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An Egyptologist explains the importance of the artifact
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Amenhotep III was succeeded by one of the first known monotheists
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Small World
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