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Canada’s Real-Life James Bond
Of the 15 real secret agents that allegedly provided the basis for Ian Fleming’s super suave spy – few know about Sir William Samuel Stephenson.
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12th October 1492 - Columbus reaches the New World
After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, who sponsored his attempt to find a western ocean route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia.
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Why Today’s GOP Crackup Is the Final Unraveling of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’
Tea Party rebels are exposing the deep rifts between country-club elites and social-issue hard-liners.
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Grateful Dead, 5-3-68, Low Library Plaza Columbia University, NYC
Rare footage of an unauthorized free outdoor concert given in solidarity with Columbia students whose strike had been violently broken up by police a few days before. Includes parts of Cryptical Envelopment and The Other One.
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Multimillion-dollar photo of Billy the Kid playing croquet was $2 junk shop find
The image, unearthed in Fresno, California, is only the second confirmed picture of the outlaw – the other sold for $2.3m in 2011
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The Second Amendment doesn't say what you think it does
A new book pokes holes in claims that the Constitution protects an unlimited right to guns.
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19th October 1781 - Victory at Yorktown
Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution.
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22nd October 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
In a televised speech of extraordinary gravity, President John F. Kennedy announces that U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba. These missile sites—under construction but nearing completion—housed medium-range missiles capable of striking a number of major cities in the United States, including Washington, D.C.
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Restoring Henry
Niall Ferguson, Kissinger’s authorized biographer, begins the arduous task of rolling his subject’s fallen reputation back up the hill. The historian Greg Grandin kicks it right back down again.
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Beating the Odds Through History
With this infographic, we take you on a walk through history, showing you the many ways in which famous individuals from all over the world have beaten the odds. It clearly shows that once you set your mind to something, it can often be achieved.
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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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Bourbon Without Rules
In the 1850s, you wouldn't believe what they put in whisky!
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How the South Won the Civil War
The Union may have been victorious in battle, but American politics has been Southernized. By Nicholas Lemann.
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‘Silent Cal’ Hailed From Vermont
Plymouth Notch is a very small town nestled in the quiet Vermont countryside and is now a Vermont State Historic Site and the entire settlement is a historic district. Coolidge became president upon the death of Warren G. Harding, who died suddenly in 1923.
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Ohio's Presidents
In recent election years, Ohio has played a pivotal role in the election of the president of the United States, but Ohio's connection to the White House goes deeper. Eight men (7 were born here) called Ohio home before making the White House their temporary dwelling.
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In the Coal Town of Helper, Baseball was More than a Pastime
Purportedly created by Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown, N. Y. in 1839, and set to rules by Alexander Cartwright in 1845, what would become our "national pastime" entered American life. In the rural mining and railroad town of Helper, Utah, it was that, and much more.
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How Breweries Like Coors, Yuengling And Anheuser-Busch Survived Prohibition
Prohibition crippled a thriving brewing industry in the United States. Between 1900 and 1913, beer production in the United States rose from 1.2 billion gallons to 2 billion gallons. By 1916, there were approximately 1,300 breweries in the country. But four years later, a nationwide ban on alcohol went into effect. Only a handful of breweries were still standing when Prohibition lifted in 1933. Their secret? Switching production to something other than beer.
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Edna Lewis and the Black Roots of American Cooking
The chef and author made the case for black Southern cooking as the foundation of our national cuisine. Does she get the credit she deserves? By Francis Lam.
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The Price of Suffering: William Pynchon and “The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption”
William Pynchon, earliest colonial ancestor of the novelist Thomas Pynchon, was a key figure in the early settlement of New England. He also wrote a book which became, at the hands of the Puritans it riled against, one of the first to be banned and burned on American soil. Daniel Crown explores.
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DOJ Tells Archivist Not to Do His Job
Govt Argues OLC Memos both Authoritative and “Pre-Decisional”, and Much More.
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