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80Gladiators: The Facts
Greeks say the Etruscans (the ancient tribe in Tuscany) started the games, but there's no physical evidence of that. As far as scholars can tell, small scale gladiatorial combat was the standard entertainment...
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83Ripples of Racism: Scottsboro Boys
Genarlow Wilson's case sits before Georgia's Supreme Court. Check out the latest on CNN.com or your favorite news station. Are there racist undertones to his case? How could there not be? Racism is not...
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86Phil Spector's Pyrenees Castle
You've probably seen Phil Spector's mansion, where Lana Clarkson died, many times on the news. It's not in Hollywood or Bel Aire, but in quiet, neighboring Alhambra, in the San Gabriel Valley. Middle-class...
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90Hitler and the Volkswagen
Although Volkswagen plays down the connection (who wouldn't?), the company got its start during the Third Reich. Based on the Fuerher's desire to rebuild Germany into a rich nation where all families could own...
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81Shoe Wars: Adidas v Puma
The greatest sports rivlary is not Michigan v Ohio State, or the Giants v Dodgers, or any other of those playground "my team can beat your team" fairytales listed on ESPN. No, the greatest sports rivalry...
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78Working Women: It's Nothing New
Many people assume that women did not start working outside the home until the late 1960s or the 1970s. Not true. I'm not talking about Rosie the Riveter or all the women who worked at aircraft factories and...
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73Wicked vs. The History Boys
What do these plays have in common? A subtext about the meaning of history, for one thing. Wicked contains some of my favorite lines about history, spoken by the Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A man's called a...
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76Nosferatu: A Classic Vampire Movie
By the time Bela Lugosi pronounced "Good Evening," in his sonorous, Hungarian voice, vampires were well-known to movie goers. The first vampire movie based on Bram Stoker's horror-filled book, Dracula, was the...
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77Chat Noir: The First Cabaret
You've seen this poster in art shops and on walls. Did you know it referred to a real place: the first cabaret? Le Chat Noir opened in 1881 in a tiny apartment in Montmartre. When it closed in 1897 (in a...
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75Ben Franklin's Inventions: Famous and Not
Ben Franklin had a knack. That's how Orson Scott Card described him in his alt-history series, The Tales of Alvin Maker. In those books, Franklin was acknowledged a true wizard. In real history. . . he's...
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