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The Unceasing Cessna Hacienda
In 1958, one heavily modified airplane flew out of Las Vegas with a single objective: Don’t land. • By Jennifer Lee Noonan • 26 October 2021
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The Kingpin of Shanghai
From the depths of poverty, Du Yuesheng rose through Shanghai’s underworld to become one of the most influential, and overlooked, figures in modern China.
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Hard to Swallow
When it came to protests, America’s lower classes at the turn of the century had a bevy of galling circumstances to c...
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To Hell With Facebook
The earliest known version of the idiom "the straw that broke the camel's back" was written by the English philosophe...
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Capital, Punished
Located 350 km (217 miles) southeast of Puerto Rico, the British island of Montserrat is sometimes called 'The Emeral...