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81Gladiators: 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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79Alternate-Day Fasting: Does it Help?
Is there a dieting secret? A recent study finds that fasting every other day may help. Not that it's easy. Think about it. For tens of thousands of years, our ancestors moved around from place to place,...
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77The Real Mrs. Cubbison of Stuffing Fame
If you've ever enjoyed a holiday feast in America, you've probably tasted Mrs. Cubbison's dressing. A real person stood behind that dressing. Sophie Huchting was born in 1890 in San Marcos, California--part of...
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78Ripples 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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76Bee Poop on Your Car
Not a joke! Everyone--at least in California--notices the little yellow-gold dots on their cars. People complain they are very hard to get rid of, and wonder what they are. An intrepid Los Angeles Times...
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77Shoe 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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76Hollywood Costume Design
Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design is the latest book by Deborah Nadoolman Landis. Landis knows her stuff: she's President of the Hollywood Costume Designers Guild and has been nominated for an...
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80Immigration Policy in the Depression
"Los Angeles Police Chief Sends Patrolmen to Guard Border" Like the headline? Care to guess when it was printed? February 15, 1936. Here's the kicker question: Which border was being guarded? It wasn't the...
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81Chat 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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69Googie Restaurants: That 1950s Look
In the early 1950's, Douglas Haskell--a Yale professor of architecture--was being driven down Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles. He passed an odd-looking coffee shop named the Googie, shouted to his driver, and...
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