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CBSNews.com to stream 1963 broadcast coverage of JFK assassination
Four days of historic CBS News coverage, from assassination to funeral and more, to air online
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Charles Manson Today: The Final Confessions of America's Most Notorious Psychopath
He's nearly 80 and his Family is smaller, but darkness still surrounds America's most notorious criminal
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Why Lee Harvey Oswald Fled to the Soviet Union
To mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, a wave of books has been published in the United States covering everything from Kennedy’s legacy to alleged new details about his death. One new title examines the Soviet chapter of the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who shot Kennedy.
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The Drones of the Civil War
Meet the hot air balloonist who convinced Lincoln to use aerial reconnaissance.
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Flatiron Building during construction in NY in early 1900s
Construction of the Flatiron Building, located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City. It was originally named the Fuller Building because it was built by the George A. Fuller Construction Company for its headquarters.
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Archaeologists discover largest, oldest wine cellar in Near East: 3,700 year-old store room held 2,000 liters of strong, sweet wine
Archaeologists have unearthed what may be the oldest -- and largest -- ancient wine cellar in the Near East, containing 40 jars, each of which would have held 50 liters of strong, sweet wine.
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Poverty: Not always with us
The world has an astonishing chance to take a billion people out of extreme poverty by 2030
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A side-effect of China's one-child policy
What's it like to grow up in a world where no-one has brothers or sisters? Are siblings really that important? Researchers have been asking those questions for years - and China, with its famous one-child policy, has been a good place to look for an answer.
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Aged to perfection? Found -3,700-year-old cellar housed 'luxurious' wine
A 3,700-year-old palatial cellar packed with jars once filled with a wine-like brew has been discovered at an archaeological site.
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50 years later, Jackie Kennedy's pink suit locked away from view
Jacqueline Kennedy was still wearing the blood-stained watermelon pink suit when she got to the White House in the early-morning hours after her husband was shot dead.
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Crowdsourcing Murder: 50 Years After JFK, The History And Future Of Political Assassination
Teddy Roosevelt didn’t fear assassins. Though his predecessor in the Presidency, William McKinley, was killed by anarchist Leon Czolgosz’s bullet, Teddy shook off security. If an assassin was cowardly enough to attack from behind, he would simply “go down into the darkness;” if the attack came from the front, President Neo planned to simply dodge the bullet. After all, as Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris recounts
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See The First “Selfie” In History Taken by Robert Cornelius, a Philadelphia Chemist, in 1839
On November 19, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “selfie” had been deemed their Word of The Year. The term, whose first recorded use as an Instagram hashtag occurred on January 27, 2011, was actually invented in 2002, when an Australian chap posted a picture of himself on an internet forum and called it a “selfie”.
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Pope to put 'St. Peter's bones' on display at Vatican
After centuries buried beneath the Vatican, and decades hidden away inside the Holy See, the bones of a man long believed to be St. Peter, one of the founding fathers of the Christian church, are to go on display for the first time.
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WATCH: In 1983, Steve Jobs Hosted Apple's Version Of 'The Dating Game' And Bill Gates Was A Contestant
The year was 1983, and 28-year-old Steve Jobs was hosting an Apple event for his employees. Jobs invited three software guys: Frank Gibbons of Software Publishing Co., Mitch Kapor of Lotus, and none other than Bill Gates of Microsoft.
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'Footage of second shooter' could prove Oswald did not act alone
A Texas real-estate developer is in possession of footage of John F Kennedy's motorcade from that fateful day in Dallas that reportedly depicts a second shooter.
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List of inventors killed by their own inventions
This is a list of inventors whose deaths were in some manner caused by or related to a product, process, procedure, or other innovation that they invented or designed.
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The Science of Hatred
What makes humans capable of horrific violence? Why do we deny atrocities in the face of overwhelming evidence? A small group of psychologists say they are moving toward answers. Is anyone listening?
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Why is the Bay Psalm Book valued at £18m?
The first book printed in what later became the United States of America is expected to set a world record at auction on Tuesday. The Bay Psalm Book is valued not only as an object of extreme rarity, but also as a symbol of a future nation's identity.
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Discovery suggests Buddha lived in 6th century BC
The discovery of an previously unknown wooden structure at the Buddha's birthplace suggests the sage might have lived in the 6th century BC, two centuries earlier than thought, archeologists said Monday. Traces of what appears to have been an ancient timber shrine was found under a brick temple that is itself within Buddhism's sacred Maya Devi Temple at Lumbini, in southern Nepal near the Indian border.
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Once Victims Of Stalin, Ukraine's Tatars Reassert Themselves
The Tatars in the Crimea are now organizing and want a full restoration of their culture in Ukraine.
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