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Few Americans are as famous and as thoroughly misremembered as Amelia Earhart. Nine decades of speculation, movies, and internet theories have layered so much myth over the record that…
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Every July 24, Amelia Earhart Day marks the birthday of the most famous aviator in American history — a woman who was, in her own lifetime, one of the…
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Ask anyone over a certain age about the moment television ended for the night, and you'll watch a very specific memory light up. There was a time — and…
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For anyone who came of age in the 1980s, 90s, or early 2000s, the memory is vivid and specific: the Friday-night trip to the video store. The particular fluorescent…
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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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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…