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Pavlichenko was a Soviet sniper credited with 309 kills—and an advocate for women's rights. On a U.S. tour in 1942, she found a friend in the first lady
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Advertisers love to use futurism as a way to position their products as forward-thinking
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And you think you're having a bad work week, just think about the robots
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Finally, women could breathe deeply when the waist-nipping corset went out of style
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Did members of a powerful society of warlocks actually murder their enemies and kidnap children?
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The government can't get their hands on you when you're floating above Earth
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In 1908, a meteor exploding in mid-air released the energy equivalent to "185 Hiroshima bombs"
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What happens when a comedy staple of mid-century sitcoms reappears as a late-century Saturday morning tradition?
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Valentine's Day can be an occasion for quirky expressions of love
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Van Gogh, Cezanne and Degas lined the walls of the famed Armory Show 100 years ago, but it was Marcel Duchamp who stole the thunder
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A future America, populated by horse-faced, spindly giants with big feet
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For centuries, the day's revelry has featured the liberated feeling of hiding in plain view
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As a celebration of 38 years of marriage, the former president shared his memories, both fond and bittersweet, from each anniversary
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What happens in the year 2063 stays in the year 2063
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Rival towns are vying for the king’s remains and his legacy now that his skeleton has been found 500 years after his death
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It's the birth of the modern cosmetics business as young women look for beauty enhancers in a tube or jar
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The young, fashionable women of the 1920s define the dress and style of their peers in their own words
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In a new book, Louis Michael Seidman claims that arguing about the constitutionality of laws and reforms is the cause of our harsh political discourse
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Sometimes treated as curiosities at the time, black men and women fighting for the Union and organizing for change altered the course of history
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What would otherwise be a local-interest story became a snapshot of history integral to the American experience
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