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Some mysteries survive because the facts are murky. The Mary Celeste has survived for more than 150 years because the facts are unusually clear, and they make no sense.…
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Manhattan in the late 1920s was a city building upward at a pace that now looks unhinged. Money was cheap, confidence was total, steel-frame construction had removed the old…
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Every Olympic marathon produces drama. Only one has produced farce on this scale. The marathon held at the 1904 Games in St. Louis — staged alongside the World's Fair,…
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It is one of the few episodes in military history where the entire body count consists of a single hog. In the summer of 1859, on a green…
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No food on the planet generates a more reliable argument than pineapple on pizza. It has been denounced by chefs, defended by prime ministers, and litigated endlessly online, with…
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It's the most reliable ritual in American dining: the meal at the Chinese restaurant ends, the check arrives, and alongside it come the fortune cookies — those crisp, folded,…