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Aether: The 1729 Debate Over What Fills the Heavens
Editorial Note The entry below ran as two installments of...
The Red-Haired Giants of Lovelock Cave: Shoshone Testimony and the War Beneath the Earth
The Shoshone, along with the Paiute and other tribes of the Great Basin, speak of an older race—massive, powerful, and feared. These were not...
Was Ancient Egypt Actually in America?
Some say it was just a hoax, some say it is a myth, but others think it is history; we leave it to you,...
Explorations in Grand Canyon: Arizona Gazette, April 5, 1909
Oldest Paper in Phoenix—Twenty-Ninth Year. EXPLORATIONS IN GRAND CANYON Mysteries of Immense Rich Cavern Being Brought to Light. JORDAN IS ENTHUSEDRemarkable Finds Indicate Ancient People...
The Bang Behind the Car: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Air-Powered Engine They Buried
When Ian Fleming published Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1964, it was written off as a whimsical children's story. A flying car, candy factories, and cartoonish...
The Orphan Trains: America’s Silent Resettlement
Between 1854 and 1929, an estimated 200,000 to 250,000 children were shipped across the United States by rail, in what remains one of the...
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Airship NORGE: The First to Conquer the North Pole
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