A bejeweled box from a sorely beset emperor leads to a Yankee dentist, and how he rescued the beautiful empress Eugénie from a Paris mob
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Founded more than a century ago, the American Colony in Jerusalem has endured hardships, wars, upheaval, and the ebb and flow of empires
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Heading north for the pole, the Jeannette was frozen fast for 21 months, then sank; for captain and crew, that was the easy part
A war crimes tribunal sent forensic scientists to investigate mass graves in the former Yugoslavia. What happened there?
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Serpent of the Nile? Learned ruler? Sex Kitten? Ambitious mom? African queen? History is still toying with the poor lady's reputation
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The public television team put theories to the test to uncover the secrets of how the ancient Egyptians moved and raised the giant blocks
Westward the corsair of England's empire made his way, plundering Spain for Queen and country; now modern moralists are nibbling at his fame
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The free-spirited author George Sand scandalized 19th-century Paris when she defied convention and pioneered an independent path for women
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In the war-shattered city of Nuremberg, in November 1945, an Allied tribunal convened to seek justice in the face of the Third Reich's monstrous war crimes
In the days when divorce was still a sin and a shame, the city of Reno grew rich and infamous, catering to domestic disharmony
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After all the analysis of his apples, his bathers, that mountain, his paintings still electrify at a major show in Philadelphia
What with the Mexican War, and a million square miles of new real estate, our westward destiny became highly manifest
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In the Algebra Project Robert Moses uses subway rides, gumdrops and everyday experiences to help kids cope with exponents and negative numbers
Getting rid of $34 billion worth of old ships, planes and guns, not to mention seven million tubes of toothpaste, was no picnic
In A.D. 77 a workaholic called Pliny the Elder published the first encyclopedia, Natural History. Headless people were among the many marvels
Can a weekly paper in rural New Mexico raise enough hell to keep its readers hungry for more, issue after issue? Don't ask
In WWII, thousands of captive Germans found our prison camps so hospitable that they later became U.S. citizens
Near the base of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, comrades and loved ones leave their poignant tokens of remembrance
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