The Former Klansman Who Joined The Supreme Court
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The History Of Mike Tyson And Donald Trump's Unlikely Relationship
Mike Tyson and Donald Trump came from different backgrounds but have a lasting friendship. Their strange relationship may have shaped Trump's presidency.
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The Grim Life Of The Man Who Created The Atomic Bomb
J. Robert Oppenheimer gave the atomic bomb life while becoming Death. This is the grim life of the man who created the atomic bomb.
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The Real Reason Michael McDonald Left Steely Dan
You don't know him, but he's your Doobie Brother. And that Brother is the mother of all yacht rock singers. He's, of course, Michael McDonald, a man whose unmistakable vocals turn on a light switch in the human soul.
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One Of The Decade's Highly Underrated Sci-Fi Movies Is Now On Netflix
Guess what? Cloud Atlas has come to Netflix.
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The Truth About Tina Turner And Elton John's Feud
In 1994, Elton John's classic, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," was released. A day earlier, Tina Turner's single, "What's Love Got to Do with It," dropped.
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What Life Was Like For Prospectors In The Wild West
1865 saw the first Wild West showdown, in which gambler Davis Tutt bet on himself to beat "Wild Bill" Hickok and lost his life. But for prospectors, the West was plenty wild long before Hickok busted a cap in Tutt's butt.
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What Life Was Really Like For Slaves In America
The anodyne thing to do would be to pretend this article exists in a vacuum, but out of respect for your intelligence as a reader, the moment at hand should be acknowledged.
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The Ugly Truth About Mount Rushmore
Since before the United States was knee-high to a bald eagle, one person's majestic monument has been another's symbol of suffocating tyranny.
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The Disturbing Truth Of Company Towns
It may seem like the main objective of Monopoly is to last forever and make the other players hate you until the end of time ... but in a way, the aim is to create a lucrative company town. You strategically buy up properties, railroads, and utilities, until you control everything.
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The Truth About Mike Tyson's Obsession With Pigeons
Sappy love songs say that love gives you wings, but for Mike Tyson it's the exact opposite. Wings -- and the pigeon bodies they're attached to, are what give Tyson love.
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The Untold Truth Of The Battle Of Midway
Fought in the emotionally fraught aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Midway became a Hollywood movie in real time.
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Leon Hendrix: The Truth About Jimi Hendrix's Brother
When Jimi Hendrix was just a little boy he grabbed a screwdriver and began dismantling his dad's radio. Watching him this whole time, with a mix of confusion and concern, was the brother who later told this story: Leon Hendrix.
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This Is The Song That Van Halen Has Played The Most In Concert
Eddie van Halen hates playing cover songs. Unfortunately, he's played a ton of them.
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The Crazy True Story Of Boss Tweed
Tweed's approach to electoral politics is aptly captured in a single quote: "I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating."
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The Dark Truth About The Civil War's Ironclads
The very first Civil War ironclads and the first in the world to fight warships were armored gunboats built by Union Captain James Buchanan Eads, the cousin of future President James Buchanan. This led to some of the earliest Union victories of the entire conflict. But they were kind of cartoonish.
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The Truth About The Ming Dynasty's Secret Police
These various secret police forces would become some of the most dangerous and hated figures of their era.
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The Real Reason The BBC Banned Jimi Hendrix
That brilliant, unapologetic individuality made for musical voodoo that only he could do so well. But it could also cause discord.
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The Untold Truth Of The Freedom Riders
When protests erupted in response to footage of a Minneapolis police officer killing George Floyd — a helplessly handcuffed man who cried out for his mother as a uniformed government official kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes — a few familiar scenes played out in the media.
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The Sad Truth About The Nazi's Animals
Whether it's the horrific experiments led by "angel of death" Josef Mengele, the horrors of concentration camps like Ravensbruck — or, you know, Hitler — you won't be hard-pressed to find examples of Nazis being unspeakably awful.
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The Untold Truth Of America's Robotic War Donkeys
There's a long and storied tradition of enlisting animals to assist humans in times of war or straight-up attempting to weaponize them against enemies. In WWII alone, the British sabotaged Nazis with exploding rats, the U.S. tried planned to make bat bombs, and Polish soldiers adopted a ...
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Were Drugs Really Smuggled In Soldiers' Coffins During The Vietnam War?
The movie American Gangster includes a stunning sequence, wherein heroin was smuggled into the U.S. inside the coffins of fallen soldiers returning from the Vietnam War. Did this really happen?
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We Now Understand Why The Babylonian Empire Fell
If ancient Mesopotamia was the cradle of civilization, Babylon was arguably its favorite baby. Nowadays, its name is synonymous with opulence and moral decay, but to quote the Evening Standard, "Babylon wasn't so bad."
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What Is Qualified Immunity And Why Do Government Officials Have It?
The Peter Parker school of ethics teaches that with great power comes great responsibility. If Spider-Man had consulted a lawyer, he'd know that U.S. courts often hold people with great power less responsible for wrongdoing, especially public officials, a legal protection called qualified immunity.
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The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Emmett Till
Emmett Till loved to laugh."He would pay people to tell him jokes," according to his cousin, Wheeler Parker. He also "loved to tell jokes," said childhood friend Richard Heard, who remembered Emmett being "a funny guy all the time."
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The Most Inspirational Axl Rose Quotes Of All Time
Axl Rose might be one of the last people you'd expect to say something uplifting or positively thought-provoking. But even if you consider him a malignant carbuncle on the otherwise un-chafed butt cheeks of human happiness, he's said some fairly inspiration things.
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The Real Meaning Of Kente Cloth
Quick: what do George Floyd and Kente cloth have in common? Congressional Democrats were accused of using both of them in a photo op masquerading as a meaningful gesture.
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