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What events, ideas or developments have had the most significant impact in our lives since 1970?
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Bobby Freeberg, a 27-year-old pilot from Kansas, disappeared while flying a supply-filled cargo plane over the Indonesian jungle
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Botanist Robert Fortune traveled to China and stole trade secrets of the tea industry, discovering a fraud in the process
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March 15 will live in infamy beyond the murder of Julius Caesar. Here are 10 events that occurred on that date
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The first memoir by a White House slave recreates the events of August 23, 1814
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A vital stop on China's ancient Silk Road, the Uighur city of Kashgar may lose its old quarter to plans for "progress"
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Meet Yuichiro Miura, the man who skied down Mt. Everest more than 50 years ago
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Liberated in 1945, the Nazi concentration camp is one of Eastern Europe's most visited sites—and most fragile
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Two obscure 16th-century German scholars named the American continent and changed the way people thought about the world
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Apocalyptic predictions are nothing new—they have been around for millennia
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