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Explore some of the most significant achievements made by women in the past century
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The concubine who became China’s last empress
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A history of climbing the world's tallest mountain
Momentous or Merely Memorable
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Assigned to find art looted by the Nazis, Western Allied forces faced an incredible challenge
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A modern museum of ancient Greece rises near the Parthenon
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Restoration of the 2,500-year-old temple is yielding new insights into the engineering feats of the golden age's master builders
Momentous or Merely Memorable
Momentous or Merely Memorable
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On his voyage to the Americas in 1492, the explorer built a small fort somewhere in the Caribbean
In 1908, anything was possible
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Aeroplanes! Skyscrapers! The race to the North Pole! Mobile phones? Inventions, predictions and breakthroughs that propelled America into the modern age
Polar species heat up one of paleontology's great debates
Keeping Cool in Cretaceous Australia and melting-pot Marseille
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How did they endure months of perpetual cold and dark?
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Momentous or merely memorable
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Statesmen, soldiers and spies who made America and the way they lived
Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's defining moment comes to life in an excerpt from Michael Korda's best-selling new biography
Readers respond to the October issue
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