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Guess The Theme 86

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6 Rock 'n Roll Urban Legends—Debunked!

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Moonrise in New Zealand

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Restoring Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much

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Celebrate a Physicist Who Died in the Challenger Disaster

On this date in 1986, the Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven people on board—including physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American to enter space. StoryCorps sat down with McNair's brother, Carl, to remember him.... READ ON

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"Baltass," the Ultimate Cups-and-Balls Illusion

Yann Frisch is a French sleight-of-hand artist best known for a routine called Baltass (a portmanteaux of the French words for "ball" and "cup," balle and tasse), in which he elevates the old cups-and-balls trick into a serious art form.... READ ON

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The Greatest Dance Number Ever Filmed

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The Magic of David Copperfield, 1978

In 1978, David Copperfield burst onto the scene with an impressively corny-but-endearing TV special shot for CBS. The special included extended bits with Orson Welles, Bernadette Peters, Sherman Hemsley, Valerie Bertinelli, and Cindy Williams (as "The Great Cindini"). It's a wild ride, because it's a combination of good fun, great acting, and pure essence of the 70s.... READ ON

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11 Original Songs That Were Cut From Their Movies

Maybe they didn't fit the tone of the film they were supposed to appear in. Maybe the director just couldn't find a place for them. Whatever the reason, these 11 songs never made it into the movies they were intended for.... READ ON

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29 Years Ago: Apple Unveils the Mac

On January 24, 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh. Wearing a suit and snappy bow tie, Steve Jobs sped through his introductory speech, rattling off specs and taking every opportunity to stick it to the IBM PC. "It eats [Intel] 8088s for breakfast," Jobs said of the Mac's Motorola 68000 CPU.... READ ON