When the squadron leader gave the signal, we hurried forward, crouching and firing, trying to get to an overturned cable spool where …
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Clark Kent is resigning from the Daily Planet. Times have changed and Kent doesn’t appreciate the tabloid-like direction the paper is taking. …
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The United States today is a country of two different people, liberals and conservatives. The partisan divide is stark and unnerving. But …
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Sometime around 10:30am on the morning of Saturday, November 12th, 2011, a 24-year-old Danvers, Massachusetts man knocked on his neighbor’s door. When …
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Just after 4:00 in the morning of April 15th, 1865 two men appeared on horseback at the home of Dr. Samuel Mudd …
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Death from spinal fracture was the final verdict for Otto Lilienthal. Displaying a heady mixture of audacity and ingenuity, Lilienthal, a German …
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I like to watch the Amazing Race. It’s one of my favorite shows. With each new episode the show’s producers must find …
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History cannot be forced on a people. In 1983 the people of Africatown tried to get their neighborhood declared a National Historic …
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Few places in America are as interesting as the Mississippi Delta. Stretching 250 miles from Memphis in the north to Vicksburg in …
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In the parking lot of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, freelance tour guides wrangle tourists onto the …