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The House that Polly Adler Built
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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The Flying Ambulance of Tomorrow
In the 1920s, a French inventor devised an ingenious way to provide emergency medical assistance
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Astrologers Predict 1929 Will Be Year of Prosperity
The world without the Great Depression looks a lot rosier in hindsight
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Infographic: The Rise and Fall of Scoring in Baseball
From the dead-ball era to the steroids era, the balance between pitchers and hitters has always been in flux
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Salk, Sabin and the Race Against Polio
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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Books: Teddy Roosevelt: Top Cop, Jonah Lehrer and Other Must-Read Books
TR’s rough ride as New York’s police chief shaped the man who became president just six years later
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Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack
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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It is tempting to think of the German hyperinflation of 1923 as a uniquely awful event, but it pales in comparison to what happened in the 17th century
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Could futuristic technology have saved the milkman from extinction?
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The Portrait of Sensitivity: A Photographer in Storyville, New Orleans’ Forgotten Burlesque Quarter
The Big Easy’s red light district had plenty of tawdriness going on—except when Ernest J. Bellocq was taking photographs of prostitutes
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Document Deep Dive: What Does the Magna Carta Really Say?
A curator from the National Archives takes us through what the governing charter means
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Moving is a lot easier if you live inside a giant ball
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The Ottoman Empire’s Life-or-Death Race
Custom in the Ottoman Empire mandated that a condemned grand vizier could save his neck if he won a sprint against his executioner
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The Art and Science of Embarrassing Art
Neuroscientist and Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel explores the flourishing of culture in Vienna
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Fighting Terrorism in the Future
A 1981 book predicted that the soldiers of the future could be more like heavily armed policemen than a fighting force
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Edward Curtis’ Epic Project to Photograph Native Americans
His 20-volume masterwork was hailed as “the most ambitious enterprise in publishing since the production of the King James Bible”
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On Heroic Self-Sacrifice: a London Park Devoted to Those Most Worth Remembering
In 1887, a painter was inspired by an idea: commemorate the everyday heroism of men, women and children who had lost their lives trying to save another’s
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