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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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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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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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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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Before There Was Twitter, There Was Morse Code: Remembering Social Media's True Inventor
In late March of 2006, a college dropout named Jack Dorsey finished coding a site for internet users to post 140-character messages.
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Hitler's Mother - 'The Only Person He Genuinely Loved'
On a chilly Saturday evening on April 20, 1889, inside an apartment above a brewery in a tiny Austrian town near the German border, a farmer's daughter married to her second cousin gave birth to her fourth child. He was the first to survive infancy. They named him Adolf.
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In Trump's First Month, Mar-A-Lago 3, Camp David 0
Dwayne Snurr, a janitor and lifelong resident of this rural, working-class town 60 miles from the White House, was eating chicken wings in a cafe off Main Street last week when he began chewing over a locally important subject: President Donald Trump's taste in vacations.
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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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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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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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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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Before There Was Twitter, There Was Morse Code: Remembering Social Media's True Inventor
In late March of 2006, a college dropout named Jack Dorsey finished coding a site for internet users to post 140-character messages.
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Hitler's Mother - 'The Only Person He Genuinely Loved'
On a chilly Saturday evening on April 20, 1889, inside an apartment above a brewery in a tiny Austrian town near the German border, a farmer's daughter married to her second cousin gave birth to her fourth child. He was the first to survive infancy. They named him Adolf.
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In Trump's First Month, Mar-A-Lago 3, Camp David 0
Dwayne Snurr, a janitor and lifelong resident of this rural, working-class town 60 miles from the White House, was eating chicken wings in a cafe off Main Street last week when he began chewing over a locally important subject: President Donald Trump's taste in vacations.
