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Clarence Dally — The Man Who Gave Thomas Edison X-Ray Vision
“Don’t talk to me about X-rays,” Edison said after an assistant on one of his X-ray projects started showing signs of illness. “I am afraid of them.”
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Super-Sized Food of the Future
How do you eat an eight-foot-long ear of corn?
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Paris or Bust: The Great New York-to-Paris Auto Race of 1908
Even before there were roads, there were men who wanted to drive fast
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Yep, there was an app for that
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A new biography tells the story of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts
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Seven Famous People Who Missed the Titanic
The notables who planned to sail on the fateful voyage included a world-famous novelist, a radio pioneer and America’s biggest tycoons
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From the Editor: Fateful Encounters
The Titanic and the elusive nature of perception
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The Aftermath of Mountain Meadows
The massacre almost brought the United States to war against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but only one man was brought to trial: John D
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Colonel Parker Managed Elvis’ Career, but Was He a Killer on the Lam?
The man who brought The King to global fame kept his own past secret. But what exactly was Tom Parker hiding?
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1970s Children Draw Robot Presidents and Nuclear Apocalypse
Kids predict the darndest things
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A Spectacle of Horror – The Burning of the General Slocum
The deadliest disaster in New York before 9/11 killed many women and children and ultimately erased a German community from the map of Manhattan
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When the Country’s Founding Father Is Your Founding Father
The descendants of American presidents are the athletic trainers, lawyers, salesmen and executives of everyday life
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Newlyweds who didn’t want to visit the cliched destination of the time, Niagara Falls, dreamt of one day spending their first days as a couple on the moon
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The officer who gained glory as a warrior in the Civil War also had a domestic side.
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The Super Bowl’s Love Affair With Jetpacks
Thankfully, this Super Bowl spectacle never had a wardrobe malfunction
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Chronicling passions that change the world, for good and ill
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Sunday Funnies Blast Off Into the Space Age
When Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus met President Kennedy in 1962, JFK told him, “The only science I ever learned was from your comic strip.”
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Meet the 1920 radio enthusiast who had the foresight to invent the annoying habit of talking on the phone while in the car
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