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Are Angelenos destined to be perpetually surrounded by super-sized advertisements?
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According to the National Building Museum, these houses, more than most, have impacted the way we live
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A trip into space without leaving Earth--or even going outdoors
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When a would-be assassin shot, the 50-page manuscript and metal eyeglasses case tucked against Roosevelt's chest absorbed the blow
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More than 20 years before the iPad, an entrepreneur saw the potential of interactive, digital magazines
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Close by the Mormon colony of Colonia Dublan is an unlikely tourist attraction: the small hilltop where the legendary Apache leader exacted his revenge
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In 1983, a Chinese fast-food restaurant hired a curious-looking pair of servers: Tanbo R-1 and Tanbo R-2
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Decades before the Internet, radio-delivered newspaper machines pioneered the business of electronic publishing.
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During the First World War, Allied birds outperformed their rivals and saved thousands of lives–all thanks to the efforts of one London pigeon fancier
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She entered the brothel business without apology and set out to become the best madam in America
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The Dalai Lama is one of the world's most revered religious leaders, but that didn't prevent four holders of the office from mysteriously dying
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In the 1920s, a French inventor devised an ingenious way to provide emergency medical assistance
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The world without the Great Depression looks a lot rosier in hindsight
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From the dead-ball era to the steroids era, the balance between pitchers and hitters has always been in flux
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As polio ravaged patients worldwide, two gifted American researchers developed distinct vaccines against it. Then the question was: Which one to use?
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TR’s rough ride as New York’s police chief shaped the man who became president just six years later
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America's longtime counterterrorism czar warns that the cyberwars have already begun—and that we might be losing
The art and science of looking ahead
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In 1950, a popular magazine depicted what an atomic bomb would do to New York City—in gruesome detail
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