A child calling Santa reached NORAD instead. Christmas Eve was never the same.
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This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later.
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As women become 60% of all US college students and continue to outpace & outperform men, the WSJ takes a look at how colleges and students feel about it
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Was Wundt a "Nazi"?: Volkerpsychologie, Racism and Anti-Semitism by Adrian Brock
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A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy for ever
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The girl in the Kent State photo
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How Netflix is creating a common European culture
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In 1814, British forces burned the US Capitol
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Janine de Greef, Belgian who helped smuggle downed Allied airmen to safety during World War II, dies at 95
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Extraordinary number of arrows dating from the Stone Age to the medieval period have melted out of a single ice patch in Norway in recent years
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The Million Man March: Powerful images of Black men and brotherhood twenty-five years ago
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How the 1619 Project took over 2020
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Pandemic escape: Volunteers transcribe Sally Ride’s papers, Rosa Parks’s recipes, Walt Whitman’s poems
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The story of the hijacking of Eastern Airlines Flight 1320 in 1970: The first hijacked US flight with a fatality, which led to many of the modern airline security measures
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In 1721, Boston’s colonists greeted Cotton Mather’s proposal for smallpox inoculation with a terror that bordered on hysteria
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The term ‘oriental’ is outdated, but is it racist?
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‘The day the wall came down’: How the Washington Post covered the Berlin Wall’s fall 30 years ago
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How women are singled out for vile abuse for political ends
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Are liberal arts colleges doomed? The cautionary tale of Hampshire College and the broken business model of American higher education
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Student tracking, secret scores: How college admissions offices rank prospects before they apply
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The 1963 sinking of the Thresher killed 129 men and became history’s deadliest submarine disaster
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Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly went undercover in 1887 to expose the horrors of an insane asylum
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A massacre, erased: China tried to repress the memory of the brutal crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Thirty years later, Beijing is still terrified of its legacy.
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The contested Confederate roots of Memorial Day: More than two dozen US cities claim to the be the “birthplace of Memorial Day"
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Lori Loughlin feels wronged in college admissions scandal
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FBI accuses wealthy parents, including celebrities, in college-entrance bribery scheme
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The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume
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The Confederacy was built on slavery. How can so many southern whites still believe otherwise?
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William J. Murtagh, ‘pied piper’ of American historic preservation, dies at 95
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How mail-order catalogues subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow
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As Harvard’s admissions policy goes on trial, alleged victims of racial bias remain anonymous
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Why Tibetan Buddhism is facing up to its own abuse scandal
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The spot where Emmett Till’s body was found is marked by this sign. People keep shooting it up.
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Pope Francis changes Catholic Church teaching to say death penalty is ‘inadmissible’
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The ACLU retreats from free expression
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The ACLU retreats from free expression
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Koko, the beloved gorilla that learned to communicate using sign language, has died
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