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Crazy Joe Gallo publicly hobnobbed with counterculture musicians, poets and artists in Greenwich Village and yearned to be a poet – while running a particularly vicious crew of Brooklyn extortionists and murderers. More. |
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Martha Gellhorn covered war for almost five decades and wrote fiction in her spare time. Too bad she married someone famous or you probably would have heard of her. More. |
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Bing Crosby said a few things on the Dec. 21, 1944, broadcast of the Kraft Music Hall that still resonate true today. More. |
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A recent survey shows Russians have mixed feelings about Joseph Stalin and how he should be remembered. More. |
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World War II double-agent Eddie Chapman, aka, Agent ZigZag was all the things a spy should be: dishonest, selfish, opportunistic, manipulative, brave, charming and surprisingly, generous. More. |
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The answers to the "why" of climate change may have been floating above our heads all along. More. |
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Hypatia, McKellar, and a giant knitting circle of unnamed women have proven that math isn't really that hard. More. |
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An excerpt from the historical novel Puller's Runner, about the career of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. 'Chesty' Puller, America's most decorated Marine, told through the eyes of a fictional company runner. More. |
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The crazy lady in the attic wrote some good poetry, even if she didn't abide by the rules. More. |
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Tom Goodrich wants you to admit it: there's something appealing about being a renowned bank robber. More. |
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A painting of the profile of a young girl was recently purchased for $19,000. Previously it was thought to be a 9th century German work, but because of a newly discovered mark, it may be worth $150 million! That mark is a fingerprint. More. |
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Most people know of Amelia Earhart. But how many know that she was on the faculty of Purdue University – or that Purdue Research Foundation helped purchase the Lockheed Elektra 10E she used on her final flight? More. |
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The best thing that I can say about Amelia, now playing from Fox Searchlight Pictures, is the filmmakers found the perfect actress to play Amelia Earhart. Because Swank physically resembles Earhart, she can sell the aviatrix’s off-beat looks with no effort. She has to work much harder, however, to reveal all the shades of character this film requires on a whirlwind tour of Earhart’s relatively short life. More. |
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The trial of the 19th century ended in an acquittal. But it made us rethink what kind of crimes women are capable of. More.
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Was LTC L. W. Andrew's decision to withdraw his New Zealand battalion from Hill 107 during the Crete campaign incompetence or cowardice - or neither? More. |
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Charles M. Aulino tells how he came to write a collection of 11 biographies, Lesser Known Giants of the 20th Century. More. |
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Benito Mussolini is widely regarded as the clown prince of World War II, a buffoon whose 'leadership' led Italy to disaster - but that overlooks the effects he and his nation had on the war. More. |
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There are several reasons why Gen. David Petraeus may be keeping himself on the sidelines in public discussions about Afghanistan. More. |
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I was pretty hard last week on Admiral William F. Halsey (see “Halsey in the Dock,” September 20th, 2009). So let me, in my best scholarly-historian “on the one hand, on the other hand” fashion, make a case for a commander like the Bull. More. |
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Gertrude Stein tried, during the Cubist period, to write like Picasso painted. Ironically, clarity ensued. More. |
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Dwight Eisenhower cautioned against those who seek freedom from the "mental stress and burden" of citizenship in a democracy. More. |
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As Simon Shama noted recently in his new book, The American Future, we have indeed been fooling ourselves on many fronts: none more insistently, and with greater peril for all of us, than on the subject of justice. More. |
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Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts died August 25 at the age of 77. He was second in longetivity in the U.S. Senate behind Robert C. Bird of West Viriginia, having been elected to eight terms. More. |
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“You haven’t seen war until you’ve seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino” proclaims the trailer for Inglourious Basterds. Longtime fans of Quentin Tarantino films will say it’s exactly what it should be. The author takes a closer look at Tarantino's latest. More. |
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