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Of all the strange-but-true stories in the annals of history, few can top this one: a modern nation, armed with machine guns and commanded by military officers, declared what…
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Every road trip has two versions: the one that leaves at 7:02 with cold drinks, full tires, and a first stop already chosen — and the one that leaves at…
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There is a memory that Americans of a certain age share, and that younger generations find almost impossible to imagine: the Sunday when everything was closed. Not "some…
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Drive any interstate approaching western South Dakota and you will be told, repeatedly and for hundreds of miles, exactly where you are going. The billboards start impossibly far away…
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Ask an American to picture the Old West and, somewhere in the montage, a lone rider will be galloping flat-out across an empty plain with a leather mail pouch,…
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Boston has its molasses; London has its beer. On an autumn afternoon in 1814, in one of the poorest districts of the world's richest city, a wall of porter…