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It's January 19, 1988, and Trans-Colorado Flight 2286 is attempting to land at Durango La Plata Airport
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Going into World War I, the British Navy tasted success for well over a century. By 1916, they finally had an adversary that would test their abilities
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Scientists are exploring a bold new plan that could help protect the world's coral reefs. Using selective breeding, they aim to produce a new strain
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A solitary lioness in her new home of Akagera, Rwanda, is tracking a herd of impala. Two problems: The impala here are stronger than the ones back home
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The crown-of-thorns starfish eats coral reefs; coral reefs happen to be the home of the guard crab
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On July 30, 1998, the pilot of Proteus Airlines Flight 706 made a slight detour so his passengers could watch a famous ocean liner
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The Royal Regalia represent two millennia of a nation's sovereignty and symbolize numerous aspects of its power
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Wrasse perform a vital cleaning function for other fish, by ridding their bodies of dead cells and parasites
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Producing the Alfa Romeo 4C supercar is a process that the automaker refuses to rush
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On the morning of August 20, 2007, a devastating fire broke out on China Airlines Flight 120 which had just landed in Naha airport
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On May 4, 1961, a bus carrying black and white anti-segregation activists called the Freedom Riders rolled into Alabama and was immediately attacked
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In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy led a march through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama
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By 1965, the U.S. initiated a military deployment, Operation Rolling Thunder, to help South Vietnam defend its independence
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In early 1898, the USS Maine sailed into Havana harbor as a show of support for the Cuban revolutionaries
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On the beaches of the Great Barrier Reef, the first turtle hatchlings emerge from their shells and make a run for the ocean
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To make the lightest possible sports car, Alfa Romeo knows it needs to build key components using carbon fiber
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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses
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In mid-1954, a riveted nation watched Senator Joseph McCarthy accuse the U.S. Army of being infiltrated by communistd
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The connection between first lady Mary Todd Lincoln and her African-American seamstress Elizabeth Keckley was a remarkably strong one
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Each Mercedes-AMG GT engine is put together by one person, not by an assembly line. In total, it takes that person 11 steps, and approximately three hours
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