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7 of Baseball’s Biggest Scandals

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Baseball has seen its share of scandals in its long history as America’s national pastime, from gambling to performance-enhancing drugs to cheating. Often these scandals have reflected what was happening…

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7 US Presidents With the Shortest Stints in the Oval Office

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In October 2022, Liz Truss became Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister, resigning after just six weeks in office. With her hasty departure, Truss joined the ranks of the world’s briefest tenures…

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Casting Out Evil: The Centuries-Long History of Exorcism

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Since its theatrical release in 1973, The Exorcist, based on William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel of the same name, has served as the cultural touchpoint for an otherwise mysterious religious…

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How the 1970s Energy Crisis Drove Innovation

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The Arab oil embargo of 1973 put the United States economy on the back foot, causing fuel shortages, a quadrupling of oil prices, and long lines at gas stations. Several…

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How Salsa Music Took Root in New York City

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Decades before the twirling, hip-shaking grooves of salsa music exploded into a global phenomenon, it emerged from the glitzy New York mambo clubs in the 1940s and 1950s and made…

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Talking to Ghosts: How Two Sisters’ Hoax Sparked a Spiritualism Craze

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In March 1848, two young sisters in Hydesville, New York came up with what they may have considered a fun prank. Teenager Maggie Fox and her younger sister Kate claimed…

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How G.I. Joe Jump-Started the Action Figure Craze

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Action figures were originally toys that were ready for “action,” because they were more flexible than similar-sized dolls. Designed with multiple joints, G.I. Joe could wage war, Jane and Johnny…

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When Chinese Americans Were Scapegoated for Bubonic Plague

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When bubonic plague hit Honolulu and San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century, officials in those cities quickly did what they had been doing for decades: They villainized…

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8 Landmark Supreme Court Cases That Were Overturned

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Contents 1. Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918) 2. Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940) 3. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) 4. Betts v. Brady (1942) 5. Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) 6. Austin…

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