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Catch me if you can: A history of helicopter-aided jailbreaks
Two Quebec inmates made headlines around the world Sunday with their dramatic jailbreak after they were whisked from the prison grounds by a helicopter. As daring as the plan was, it’s hardly unique in the history of prison escapes.
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This Is How Newspapers Covered The Start Of The Iraq War 10 Years Ago
"Good morning, Saddam"
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Bought for $3 at yard sale, bowl sells for $2.2 million
A rare Chinese bowl bought for about $3 from a yard sale in the U.S. sold for $2.2 million at an auction in New York on Tuesday.
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The Weirdest Aircraft of the 20th Century
The 20th Century gave us the Wright Brothers, the 747 and the Concorde. But it also gave us some of the strangest things ever to take to the skies. Here are some of the most insane aircraft ever conceived.
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40 years of icons: the evolution of the modern computer interface
Fifty years ago, the word “computer” had a very different meaning. Prior to World War II, the word referred not to machines, but to people (mostly women in order to save costs) hired as human calculators.
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Iraq War's 10th Anniversary: The Invasion
A decade ago, the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq on the premise that the country was hiding weapons of mass destruction. Despite worldwide protest and a lack of UN authorization, 200,000 thousand troops deployed into Iraq in March of 2003, following massive airstrikes.
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Dinosaur-killing rock 'was a comet'
The space rock that hit Earth 65m years ago and is widely implicated in the end of the dinosaurs was probably a speeding comet, US scientists say.
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New pope, old pope meet for lunch
Pope Francis had lunch Saturday with his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, in what the Vatican said was the first such encounter in the history of the Catholic Church.
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Comet, not asteroid, wiped out the dinosaurs
According to researchers from Dartmouth University, it may not have been a slow-moving asteroid that struck the planet 65 million years ago, bringing about the end of the reign of the dinosaurs, but instead it may have been a fast-moving... … Continue reading →
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Chess and 18th Century artificial intelligence
An 18th Century automaton that could beat human chess opponents seemingly marked the arrival of artificial intelligence. But what turned out to be an elaborate hoax had its own sense of genius, says Adam Gopnik.
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Hunting For Dead Serial Killers
By day, she runs the sex-crimes division of the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office. In her spare time, she tracks down the DNA of dead rapists, murderers, and serial killers.
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Who Made Spring Break?
In 1958, Glendon Swarthout, an English professor at Michigan State University, overheard his students buzzing about their Easter-break trip to Fort Lauderdale. In that more-ecumenical era, students typically shuttled home to attend church services with their parents, but now word was spreading of another kind of spring break.
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How Artists Once Imagined the Earth Would Look from Space
Ever since the invention of the telescope, people knew what the planets of the solar system looked like. By the turn of the 20th century, we even had excellent photos of many of them. But before the first satellites---or even the first high-altitude photos from V2 rockets and stratosphere balloons---no one had any idea what our planet would look like when seen from space. Here's how artists imagined Earth would look from space.
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30 Years Ago: Michael Jackson Moonwalked
Thirty years ago tonight, the world first saw Michael Jackson moonwalk. The big moment came during the end of his performance of "Billie Jean" at the Motown 25th Anniversary special, taped at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium and broadcast on NBC about six weeks later.
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Who really killed bin Laden?
In February, Esquire magazine published a lengthy profile of "The Man Who Killed Osama bin Laden." The story did not identify the killer by his real name, referring to him only as "the Shooter."
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What Extremely Successful People Were Doing At Age 25
Whether they've completely turned around or were already on the track to greatness, we found out what some of the most fascinating people were doing at age 25.
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How to Buy a New Computer (in 1993)
This classic episode of Computer Chronicles helps buyers choose personal computers...in 1993. It's quite the trip down memory lane, including a sponsor message featuring the phrase "don't copy that floppy" in a completely non-ironic way.
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Manson murder mystery: LAPD hopes decades-old tapes hold clues
The Los Angeles Police Department can have access to personal tape recordings between Charles Manson follower Charles D. "Tex" Watson and his late attorney that investigators believe might hold clues to unsolved killings, a federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday.
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The REAL Last Crusade: Nazi search for the Holy Grail which inspired Indiana Jones
In the 1989 Last Crusade movie, Indiana Jones played by Harrison Ford was on the quest for the grail - and he was in competition with the Nazis.
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Berlin Wall section removed despite protests
Construction workers tear down parts of historic East Side Gallery to make way for access route to luxury flats.
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