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Like Jackie and Dolley before her, Nancy Reagan brought her own unique style to the White House. But economic times were tough
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Learjet 35 was a doomed plane, flying miles off course and with passengers and crew presumed dead
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U.S. marines faced a battle unlike any they had faced before: the Japanese intentionally crashed over 1,900 planes in suicide kamikaze dives on them
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Investigators looking into the crash of Learjet 35 were faced with a question: If the supplemental oxygen was working, why didn't the crew use their masks?
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Golden lion tamarins have evolved a clever way to keep their population size steady in the face of predation. They almost always give birth to twins.
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Ever since the deadly eruption of Mount Tarawera in 1886, New Zealand has invested heavily in a sophisticated warning system
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In the early 1900s, a New Zealand farmer named Richard Pearse built what looked like a flying bicycle. Some of the ideas he developed are now standard
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In ring-tailed lemur society, it's the females who call the shots. They live in groups of up to 30 and the alpha female will fight to protect territory
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Scientists have little doubt that Stonehenge functioned as a Neolithic cemetery
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A ground-breaking scientific technique is tracing the life of one of the bog bodies of Northern Europe
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By all accounts, Roman gladiators were the rock stars of their day, performing in a packed coliseum to a crowd of thousands
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A scientist recreates a Stone Age funeral pyre using nothing but resources from that era. The makeshift pyre achieves same temperatures as a crematorium
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A murdered corpse in a remote wetland in Denmark is found to be over 2,400 years old
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There's plenty of evidence to suggest that a mass grave discovered in the north of England is a gladiator cemetery
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A marauding polar bear is about to be returned to the the wild, as far away as possible from the town of Churchill
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A local guide from Churchill, Manitoba, is on a late night walk, hoping to spot a polar bear. He strikes gold when a large male appears
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During seal hunting season, a female polar bear strives to put on up to 300 pounds of fat. That weight gain is a necessity
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Over a half century after the crash of UN DC-6 on September 18, 1961, a new investigation is launched
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In South Dakota, thousands of fireflies, in the midst of a mating ritual, compete against the bright stars that light up the dark skies of the Badlands
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A scientist's visit to a Shuar elder in Ecuador reveals the secrets of the ceremonial tradition of head shrinking
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