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When the President signed the fiscal cliff deal from 4,800 miles away, he did it with the help of a device that dates back to Thomas Jefferson
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The minister of armaments was happy to tell his captors about the war machine he had built. But it was a different story when he was asked about the Holocaust
How did the tabletop game get from parlor halls in 19th century Europe to the basements of American homes?
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Ancient Roman pills, preserved in sealed tin containers on the seafloor, may have been used as eye medicine
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How did the tabletop game get from parlor halls in 19th-century Europe to the basements of American homes?
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Ever since they became a part of the city’s transit system, they have been iconic mainstays of its cityscape
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Medical diagnostics in the paleofuture
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Does the evidence against these 44 slaves really stack up?
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America’s first interracial casino helped end segregation on the Strip and proved that the only color that mattered was green
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A mountain hamlet in northern Japan claims Jesus Christ was buried there
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A tragic Christmas mystery remains unsolved more than 60 years after the disappearance of five young siblings
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After Teddy Roosevelt's act of sportsmanship in 1902 was made legendary by a political cartoonist, his name was forever affixed to an American classic
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During the Civil War, two regiments faced off as spectators, possibly as many as 40,000, sat and watched
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As the 1800s gave way to the 1900s, many Americans felt that old Saint Nick needed a new way of getting from house to house
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When freeing the slaves 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln traded in his famous lyricism for a dry, legal tone. Harold Holzer explains why
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Elroy gets to meet the star of his favorite show—but, in the real world, spacemen were disappearing from American televisions
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The pen, inkwell and one copy of the document that freed the slaves are photographed together for the first time
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What were you doing on the web back in the age of Netscape and Gopher?
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Turks and Caicos had one of the world's first, and largest, salt industries
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Was our future to be delightful or depraved? Sort of depends on your perspective
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