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Jerry Seinfeld's silly, frilly prop takes its place in television history
Momentous or merely memorable
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With a little help from a rattlesnake's rattle, Sacagawea gives birth to a baby she names Jean Baptiste
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A rare Burmese ruby memorializes a philanthropic woman
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The shooting of protester James Meredith 38 years ago, searingly documented by a rookie photographer, galvanized the civil rights movement
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From keeping tabs on the Taliban to saving puppies, a reporter looks back on her three years covering a nation's struggle to be reborn
African-American architect Julian Abele is finally getting recognition for his contributions to some of 20th-century America's most prestigious buildings
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In Uganda, tens of thousands of children have been abducted, 1.6 million people herded into camps and thousands of people killed
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Sixty-five years after Russell Lee photographed New Mexico homesteaders coping with the Depression, a Lee admirer visits the town for a fresh slice of life
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Confronting the British in Boston in 1775, Gen. George Washington honed the qualities that would carry the day in war and sustain the new nation in peace
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Severe cold and fraternizing with the Mandan keep Meriwether Lewis' doctoring in demand
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Founded by a freed slave, an Illinois town was a rare example of biracial cooperation before the Civil War
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To a war-weary nation, a U.S. POW's return from captivity in Vietnam in 1973 looked like the happiest of reunions
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America's first permanent colonists have been considered incompetent. But new evidence suggests that it was a drought—not indolence—that almost did them in
A new exhibition probes the contradictions of an advanced civilization that practiced human sacrifice
In Vilnius, Lithuania, preservationists are creating a living memorial to the nation's 225,000 Holocaust victims
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The Icelandic house of what is likely the first European-American baby has scholars rethinking the Norse sagas
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A new museum celebrates the Underground Railroad, the secret network of people who bravely led slaves to liberty before the Civil War
For more than a decade, American Robert Graf has combed the waters of a Seychelles island for a multimillion-dollar booty stashed by pirates 300 years ago
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The birth of the TV dinner started with a mistake
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