Whether as a tourist, an outcast or a pilgrim, traveling is discovering
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Coya Knutson won a seat in the U.S. House in 1954 but was undone by a secret she brought to Washington
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It has become a great legend of World War I. But what really happened when British and German troops emerged from their trenches that Christmas Day?
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The editor behind the site that curates the best content on the web lists the most interesting history books of 2011
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Radebaugh's vision of a road-creating machine may not have been a figment of just his imagination- a Disney-produced television program had a similar idea
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Longfellow made the patriot’s ride to Lexington legendary, but the story of Revere’s earlier trip to Portsmouth deserves to be retold as well
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The Republican senator and 1964 presidential candidate predicted the growth of the Sun Belt and envisioned an open border with Mexico
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In the 1950s, some U.S. scientists warned that, without immediate action, the Soviet Union would control the earth's thermometers
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For six years, an elderly tramp toured the U.S., paying those who helped him with checks for sums of up to $900,000
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Newly unearthed documents shed light on claims that the famous criminal attorney bribed a juror
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President Lincoln addresses the State of the Union and grows impatient with General McClellan
Winfrey steps aside after a decade, Caruso steps in
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Forget “Dixie,” it was one New Yorker’s “Home Sweet Home” that was the song most beloved by Union and Confederate soldiers
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The future of food was envisioned by many prognosticators as entirely meatless and often synthetic
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In a new exhibit at the National Building Museum, imagine Washington D.C. as it could have been
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The history of the holiday meal tells us that turkey was always the centerpiece, but other courses have since disappeared
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Amid the vast literature of the Civil War, it's easy to lose sight of some of the stranger facts, coincidences and quirks of character
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An inventor's plans for traveling inside a giant bullet would have made a trip across the Bay a fast one
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If an atomic bomb drops on your house, a civil defense official advises: "Get over it."
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A Jefferson expert provides a list of indispensable reads about the founding father
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