Michael Rosenwald The Washington Post
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"Wall Of Spies": New Museum You Can't Visit Dedicated To US Turncoats
In November 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin raised a glass with his military intelligence officials to honor and celebrate an American named George Koval.
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Anne Frank's Haunting Newly Published Letters To Her Grandmother
In April of 1940, a few months before Adolf Hitler ordered Jews in Germany to wear yellow stars, a 10-year-old girl in Amsterdam sent a postcard to her pen pal in Iowa.
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Mark Twain's Typewriter - "Full Of Defects" - Nearly Drove Him Bonkers
This is a story about love, hate and Mark Twain. The object of Twain's desire (then resentment): the typewriter.
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Princess Diana Wasn't Forgotten At Royal Wedding. Her Sons Still Mourn Her Death
Harry and his older brother Prince William have made sure to include their beloved late mother in their weddings.
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Lord Mountbatten Was Killed By Terrorists. Now He's A Royal Baby's Namesake.
On a late summer morning in 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten -- cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, World War II hero, last viceroy of India -- set off on his fishing boat from the coast of Ireland after breakfast in his castle.
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A Masked Shooter. A Campus Killing. And A Manhunt 159 Years Before Columbine.
On the morning of Nov. 15, 1840, the Richmond Enquirer reported the nation's first campus shooting on the bottom corner of Page 2.
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N Korea Shot Down US Spy Plane In 1969. Donald Trump Might Be Appalled By The Response.
On April 15, 1969, a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane took off in from an airbase in Japan on a routine mission to spy on an increasingly belligerent threat -- North Korea.
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JFK's Assassin: Lee Harvey Oswald's Eerie Calm The Day Before He Pulled The Trigger
Ruth Paine, a quiet Quaker, returned home from the grocery store. On her front lawn, there was her tenant Marina Oswald, playing with her daughter Junie. And there was Marina's volatile, semi-estranged husband, Lee.
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How Hugh Hefner Became Hef: From Sexually Repressed Childhood To Playboy
Hugh Hefner, who died Wednesday at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles after spending most of his life there in a silk robe, grew up in the 1920s on a quiet Chicago street lit with gas lamps.
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Michael Phelps Vs. A shark: The Bizarre History Of Humans Racing Animals
Phelps, the winner of 23 Olympic gold medals in swimming, is racing a shark Sunday night during the Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week
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"Wall Of Spies": New Museum You Can't Visit Dedicated To US Turncoats
In November 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin raised a glass with his military intelligence officials to honor and celebrate an American named George Koval.
-
Anne Frank's Haunting Newly Published Letters To Her Grandmother
In April of 1940, a few months before Adolf Hitler ordered Jews in Germany to wear yellow stars, a 10-year-old girl in Amsterdam sent a postcard to her pen pal in Iowa.
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Mark Twain's Typewriter - "Full Of Defects" - Nearly Drove Him Bonkers
This is a story about love, hate and Mark Twain. The object of Twain's desire (then resentment): the typewriter.
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Princess Diana Wasn't Forgotten At Royal Wedding. Her Sons Still Mourn Her Death
Harry and his older brother Prince William have made sure to include their beloved late mother in their weddings.
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Lord Mountbatten Was Killed By Terrorists. Now He's A Royal Baby's Namesake.
On a late summer morning in 1979, Lord Louis Mountbatten -- cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, World War II hero, last viceroy of India -- set off on his fishing boat from the coast of Ireland after breakfast in his castle.
-
A Masked Shooter. A Campus Killing. And A Manhunt 159 Years Before Columbine.
On the morning of Nov. 15, 1840, the Richmond Enquirer reported the nation's first campus shooting on the bottom corner of Page 2.
-
N Korea Shot Down US Spy Plane In 1969. Donald Trump Might Be Appalled By The Response.
On April 15, 1969, a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane took off in from an airbase in Japan on a routine mission to spy on an increasingly belligerent threat -- North Korea.
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JFK's Assassin: Lee Harvey Oswald's Eerie Calm The Day Before He Pulled The Trigger
Ruth Paine, a quiet Quaker, returned home from the grocery store. On her front lawn, there was her tenant Marina Oswald, playing with her daughter Junie. And there was Marina's volatile, semi-estranged husband, Lee.
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How Hugh Hefner Became Hef: From Sexually Repressed Childhood To Playboy
Hugh Hefner, who died Wednesday at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles after spending most of his life there in a silk robe, grew up in the 1920s on a quiet Chicago street lit with gas lamps.
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Michael Phelps Vs. A shark: The Bizarre History Of Humans Racing Animals
Phelps, the winner of 23 Olympic gold medals in swimming, is racing a shark Sunday night during the Discovery Channel's annual Shark Week
