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The Trickle Up Theory
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Grateful Dead Album Will Be Inducted Into Grammy Hall of Fame
The Grateful Dead iconic release is finally getting its due.
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22nd November 1963 - John F. Kennedy assassinated
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.
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You Still Don't Know the Whole Rosa Parks Story
You probably think you know the story of Rosa Parks, the seamstress who refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala., 60 years ago—on Dec. 1, 1955—and thus galvanized the bus boycott that was a defining moment in the American civil rights movement. You also probably think you know what she looks like — from her mugshot most likely, or a picture of her being fingerprinted, or perhaps a later photo of her seated, looking out the window, on an integrated bus.
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The Ruined Beauty of Pioneer Homesteads
The arid landscape of the Great Plains is home to generations of pioneer homesteaders—and the ruins they left behind. By Andrew Moore.
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Julie
Rhiannon Giddens
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An expansive photo record of Native American life in the early 1900s
Edward S. Curtis spent more than 20 years documenting over 80 tribes across North America.
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Civil War Envelopes Are Works of Art—And Propaganda
Envelopes were relatively new for American mail in the 1860s, and printers used them to take sides. By Veronique Greenwood.
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Welcome to Arkham—the (HO) Model City
A scale model of HP Lovecraft’s Arkham city.
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Timeless New York street scenes, discovered after nearly 50 years
Amateur photographer Frank Larson captured New York City in the 50s. His thousands of negatives had been stashed away in an attic since his death in 1964. But recently, a grandson discovered them.
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