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Judge Judy Is a National Treasure
With her popular syndicated television show—now in its 19th year—Judith Sheindlin protects the reasonable American’s notion of accountability and justice, reassuring us that offenders will be punished and victims compensated.
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Here come the crazy Clinton conspiracies of the 1990s
With Hillary poised to run, expect conservatives to revive all the old tales: Vince Foster, Whitewater, mysterious homicides, drug money corruption, and dead cats.
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How the Internet Uses Nostalgia
Long-lost memories pop up in music recommendations, personality quizzes, and ads. Why?
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Scientology’s Vanished Queen
After the wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige disappeared from public view, in 2007, those who asked questions were stonewalled, or worse. Now interviews with former insiders provide a grim picture of Shelly Miscavige’s youth, marriage, and fall from grace—and an assessment of her fate.
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The real “King and I”
“In 1862, 31-year-old Anna Leonowens accepted an offer to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, King of Siam.
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Big bang birthday: Six mysteries of a cosmic bombshell
In 1964, a pair of engineers at Bell Labs in New Jersey tried to build a better antenna and ended up uncovering the origins of the universe. After ruling out city noise, nuclear bombs and pigeon poop, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson argued that a strange radio hiss in their readings was the first confirmed signal of the cosmic microwave background. This relic glow emerged as a result of the big bang and now permeates the universe.
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A Dictator's Guide to Urban Design
Ukraine is the size of Texas, but for the last three months its burgeoning protest movement has largely crowded into the space of 10 city blocks. The name for the movement itself, Euromaidan, is a neologism fusing the prefix euro, a nod to the opposition's desire to move closer to the EU and away from Russia, with the Ukrainian (and originally Persian and Arabic) word maidan, or public square.
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Robert Mugabe celebrates 90th birthday as Zimbabwe's international pariah
Mandela will go down in history as a unifier and a hero but Africa's other great freedom fighter turned president will be seen as a divisive despot and a fallen angel
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How I unintentionally ended up spending 15 years of my life in North Korea
Introducing her new NK News column, Monique Macias explains why she calls North Korea home
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And Now for the Further Adventures of Rahm the Impaler
"Trending toward insolvency." "The country's worst school system." "The murder capital of America." This is Rahm Emanuel's third year as mayor of Chicago, and everything is under control.
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Time travellers: please don’t kill Hitler
In almost any science-fiction scenario involving time-travel, the default action is to kill Hitler. As terrible a human being as he was, there are many reasons why this probably isn’t a good idea
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World's 'first airport' largely unknown
Some say this deserted little patch of Midwestern dirt was the first airport in the world. Others point to Maryland or Washington state. So, who's right?
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Maria von Trapp, last of famous singing siblings, dies at 99
Maria von Trapp, the last of the singing children portrayed in "The Sound of Music," has died at 99 in Vermont.
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Sharing a name with Saddam Hussein
The men named Saddam
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11,000-Year-Old Settlement Found Under Baltic Sea
A collection of well preserved artifacts left by nomads is discovered near Sweden.
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Oldest-known Holocaust survivor dies at 110
Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, died at age 110 on Sunday, a family member said. The accomplished pianist's death came just a week before her extraordinary story of surviving two years in a Nazi prison camp through devotion to music and her son is up for an Oscar. Herz-Sommer died in a hospital after being admitted Friday with health problems, daughter-in-law Genevieve Sommer said.
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Why Is The Copyright Monopoly Necessary, Anyway?
The copyright industry is amazing at pretending the copyright monopoly has always been there in its current form. But international copyright monopolies didn't exist in practice across the Western world before 1989.
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New Evidence That Agent Orange's Destruction Spread to Peacetime
A new study published in the journal Environmental Research reveals that Air Force reservists were exposed to higher levels of the toxic chemical than previously known (or admitted). Many of the same aircraft that dispersed Agent Orange during the war were later used as transport vehicles during (relative) peacetime, primarily between the years 1971 and 1982.
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Awkward! 28 Cringe-Worthy Vintage Product Endorsements
ere’s a moment in your typical advertising brainstorm when the people charged with wrestling the creative elements to the ground cry uncle, settling on a clumsy compromise for the sake of getting on with the really important business—billing their clients. Or so these advertisements fronted by some rather improbable pitchmen and women would suggest. Is a clown really going to convince us to buy tires for our cars? Did anyone ever believe Bill Gates bought his computers at Radio Shack?
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Meet Terrible Tilly, the Killer Lighthouse
Things did not begin well for the Oregon lighthouse that came to be known as Terrible Tilly.
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