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Doritos Nachos, Pasta With Mayo, Corn Pizza: How Other Places Imagine American Food
One of America’s greatest qualities–or, perhaps, its greatest failing–is its skill at taking food from anywhere in the world and transforming it to fit...
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The Forgotten Midwest Craze for Building Palaces Out of Grain
In 1890, Forest City, Iowa, built a palace–not of stone, or wood, or brick, but of flax. By Sarah Laskow.
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Coin-Op Cuisine: When the Future Tasted Like a Five-Cent Slice of Pie
Starting in the 1890s, people flocked to a new type of restaurant whose walls were lined with futuristic devices serving everything from deviled crab on toast to apple pie. It was called the “automat.”
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The American Robber Barons Who Stole Medieval Europe
We had been driving through what felt like one continuous Miami strip mall for almost an hour. Our GPS promised that in a few short minutes we would reach the destination we had traveled some thousand miles to find: a Spanish monastery, from the 12th century, once inhabited by a bevy of monks, moved stone by stone across the ocean, now set in the middle of a swamp-jungle.
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7th November 1965 - Art Arfons sets land-speed record
A drag racer from Ohio named Art Arfons sets the land-speed record—an average 576.553 miles per hour—at Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats. Arfons drove a jet-powered machine, known as the Green Monster, which he’d built himself out of surplus parts.
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Electric Baths of Yesteryear
It does sometimes seem like our early 20th century ancestors had a knack for coming up with particularly extravagant new ways to torture themselves. An electric bath?
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The call of the road
From bison-hunting tribes on the Great Plains to RV retirees in Arizona, wanderlust runs through all America’s nomads. By Richard Grant.
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The Heartbreaking Posters That Convinced Americans to Help Displaced Syrians During WWI
The American Committee for Relief in the Near East, which put these posters in circulation in the last years of World War I, began in 1915 as the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief and was formed as a humanitarian response to the Armenian genocide and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire... By Rebecca Onion.
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Al Molinaro, Big Al on ‘Happy Days’ actor, dead at 96
Al Molinaro, the actor best known for playing diner owner Big Al Delvecchio on “Happy Days,” died Thursday, according to reports.
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26th October 1881 - Shootout at the OK Corral
The Earp brothers face off against the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. After silver was discovered nearby in 1877, Tombstone quickly grew into one of the richest mining towns in the Southwest. Wyatt Earp, a former Kansas police officer working as a bank security guard, and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, the town marshal, represented “law and order” in Tombstone, though they also had reputations as being power-hungry and ruthless.
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The Trickle Up Theory
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The Rearrangement of Americans' Living Arrangements
American society is always changing, but it happens so gradually it is hard to notice. Take a look at how household living arrangements have shifted over the last 40 years
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Truck drivers wanted. Pay: $73,000
The U.S. is running low on truckers and trucking advocates argue that the shortage could damage the U.S. economy.
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Citizen Kane’s follow-up: The greatest sequel never made?
In honour of Orson Welles’ death 30 years ago, his friend film-maker Henry Jaglom tells the colourful story of their attempt to make a ‘bookend’ to the greatest American film.
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How the Immigration Act of 1965 Inadvertently Changed America
The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, whose 50th anniversary comes on October 3, officially committed the United States, for the first time, to accepting immigrants of all nationalities on a roughly equal basis. The law eliminated the use of national-origin quotas, under which the overwhelming majority of immigrant visas were set aside for people coming from northern and western Europe.
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No, Native Americans aren't genetically more susceptible to alcoholism
When Jessica Elm, a citizen of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, was studying for her master’s degree in social work, she frequently heard about how genes were responsible for the high risk of alcoholism among American Indians. But her own family’s experience — and the research, she discovered — tells a very different story. The "firewater" fairytale that Elm came to know all too well goes like this: Europeans introduced...
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America’s 10 Oldest Food and Drink Companies
Companies come and go, but there are some out there that have truly stood the test of time. In fact, some food and drink brands in your supermarket have been around since Colonial times! Read on to learn which 10 American food and drink companies have stuck around the longest.
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California now allows firms to tell consumers a 'made in USA' lie
California long required that any manufacturer wanting to say that a product is made in America must, in fact, have a product that's made in America.
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15th September 1954 - Famous Marilyn Monroe “skirt” scene filmed
The famous picture of her, laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent, is shot on this day in 1954 during the filming of The Seven Year Itch. The scene infuriated her husband, Joe DiMaggio, who felt it was exhibitionist, and the couple divorced shortly afterward.
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Good and Bad Inventions from 1865 [Slide Show]
Optimistic Ideas from the Scientific American Archive
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