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Mina Crandon & Harry Houdini: The Medium and The Magician
Mina Crandon’s followers believed she had genuine paranormal powers. HarryHoudini was equally certain she was a fraud.
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Pardo’s Push: An Incredible Feat of Airmanship
four American airmen awaited their takeoff orders. It was March 10, 1967, and their mission to bomb a strategic target in Thai Nguyen was more dangerous than any mission they had yet flown in Vietnam.
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Picture of the Day: February 4
Louis Braille Louis Braille, born February 4, 1809, was blinded at age four as […]
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Picture of the Day: February 5
Anti-Vice Crusader Anthony Comstock To purify America and protect its youth from sin, self-appointed […]
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Picture of the Day: February 3
Editor and Candidate Horace Greeley Abolitionist newspaper editor Horace Greeley was born in Amherst, […]
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Picture of the Day: February 2
The first large-scale electronic digital computer A press conference for what is considered the […]
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Picture of the Day: January 31
Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor German President Paul von Hindenburg (right) made Adolf Hitler chancellor […]
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World War II: Closing the Falaise Pocket
In August 1944, the Germans fought desperately to hold open their last escape route from Normandy while the Polish 1st Armored and the U.S. 90th Infantry divisions fought equally hard to close it.
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Picture of the Day: February 1
The Thirteenth Amendment On February 1, 1865 Lincoln’s home state of Illinois became the […]