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On a clear morning in late August 1930, the last 36 residents of one of the most remote inhabited places in Britain gathered their belongings, loaded their sheep onto…
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Somewhere beneath the jungle of central Vietnam is a cave large enough to hold a 40-story skyscraper, with a river running through it, a forest growing inside it, and…
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In an age of ride apps, congestion charges, and confusing transit maps, there's a special appeal to a city you can simply walk across, and one European capital does…
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Across American history, certain places were designated for people the rest of society wanted removed — the contagious, the institutionalized, the condemned, the unclaimed dead. Isolated by water, distance,…
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In September 1942, the U.S. federal government forcibly purchased 59,000 acres of farmland along the Clinch River in East Tennessee, evicted the 3,000 families who lived there, and built…
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Across the United States, a specific kind of American town rose on a single industry — coal, steel, copper, textiles, a railroad junction, an auto plant — sustained tens…