Gerald Bull wanted to use a very big gun to shoot a satellite into space. Saddam Hussein wanted a very big gun.
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What is a Berliner, anyway?
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Florence, Y’all
Florence y’all
In 1960, 2,000 people lived in the Chagos Islands. 15 years and one backroom nuclear missile deal later, none of them did.
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The Christmas Truce
This Christmas, a break from war.
Sequoyah didn’t know how to read; he still taught the Cherokee to write.
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The Polish Tango
Let’s take Poland and push it somewhere else.
How a population of prehistoric plankton led to particular political prominence in the American south.
A recent flare-up in a century-old conflict renews seeds of ethnic discord, memoirs of the USSR.
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Bloodbath
Did history’s most prolific serial killer really bathe in the blood of her victims?