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As more and more settlers began to pour into California throughout the 1840s, a chain of events led to the Bear Flag Revolt
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Learn how Central Park, the first of its kind, was given a completely visionary design that's since influenced cities around the country
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A hammerhead shark is capable of detecting a single drop of fish oil in a body of water equivalent to an Olympic-size swimming pool
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An entire colony of English settlers disappeared from Roanoke Island, just outside North Carolina's Outer Banks
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In 1940, German U-boat commander Otto Kretschmer's submarine was under siege for hours and his crew grew tremendously stressed
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Historically feared by humans, brown bears were once aggressively hunted in the contiguous U.S.
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Your bags usually make the same journey you do. But before they've even boarded, they're in for a six-mile automated trip through the bowels of the airport
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How did the pliosaurus, a 45-foot-long underwater prehistoric predator, keep up with its prey? A biomechanics expert finds answers by observing the penguin
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Many airports employ passenger flow experts to look out for travel patterns among passengers. From there, they can change the airport's infrastructure
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In 1967, archeologists discovered Akrotiri. It may be the missing city of Atlantis, as well as the origin of the modern toilet
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The Confederate Civil War prisoner camp in Andersonville, Georgia, was an utter nightmare for the many soldiers held within
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The Badlands of South Dakota are filled with the fossils of fascinating and surprising prehistoric animals
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Still fresh from his Olympic win, boxing legend Muhammad Ali was turned away from a restaurant in his hometown that didn't serve African Americans
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Built during the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898, the Yukon and White Pass Railway is a stunning sight
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What happened to the giant volcano thought to have destroyed Atlantis? The answer may be the island of Santorini...all of it
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In the late 1700s, more than 60 million bison roamed the Great Plains. Over the years, demand for fur and meat drove their numbers down
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An NBA expert has interviewed over 150 people in a quest to track down the ball used in Wilt Chamberlain's 1962 100-point game
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In the wilderness of Wyoming, there's a magnificent pillar of ancient lava so unique, that even geologists are at odds on exactly how it was formed
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Archaeologists look to trees to determine the destruction of a pre-Columbian civilization found in southern Illinois
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A dog's sense of smell is 100,000 more sensitive than a human's. That's why the U.S. military uses them to detect improvised explosive devices
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