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Tips for Keeping your Tenement Tidy (in 1911)

Mabel Hyde Kittredge, activist and founder of the hot lunch program for public schools in New York, was the Martha Stewart of tenement living. ... READ ON

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5 Legendary Art Trials

Taking masterpieces to court is a tradition as old as the legal system. So is letting them off the hook.... READ ON

WWI Centennial

Conrad Urges War Against Serbia

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Rest in Pieces: 10 Transportation Graveyards

Where the vehicles that one took people from Point A to Point B go to die.... READ ON
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Meet the Sole Employee of the U.S. Metric Program

Almost 40 years after the 1975 Metric Conversion Act, the head of the U.S. Metric Program explains why change is hard.... READ ON

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Al Fritz and the Schwinn Sting-Ray

They called it the "Corvette of bicycles": The Schwinn Sting-ray, which revolutionized the industry in the 1960s, was created by Al Fritz, who died on May 7, 2013, of complications from a stroke.... READ ON

Weird Science

10 Facial Reconstructions of Famous Historical Figures

Why look at a painting of a historical figure when you can come face to face with one?... READ ON

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"Say It Ain't So, Joe"

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The History (and FlimFlam) of Tarot

Even for those of us with no use for fortune-telling, there’s something different about Tarot cards. Those peculiar pictures. That association with ancient, mystical knowledge. The way in which the fortune-telling unfolds. But rejoice! Everything you think you know about Tarot is, basically, nonsense.... READ ON

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