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The little-known story of how an opium crisis created America’s first multimillionaire

Wikimedia Commons/John Wesley Jarvis How America’s First Multimillionaire Got Rich Smuggling Opium The richest man in 1800s ...
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The Palm Sunday massacre that gave Texas its second most famous battle cry after “Remember the Alamo”

Shutterstock The Goliad Massacre Santa Anna had a simple rule for foreign fighters: shoot them all. When 400 Texan rebels ...
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How a Texas sharecropper’s son became the first Black recipient of the Navy Cross

Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of the U.S. Navy US Navy Sailor Doris "Dorie" Miller, first black recipient of the Navy ...
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The Kansas school case that broke the “separate but equal” chokehold in America

In 1951, a young girl named Linda Brown walked six blocks just to catch a bus to her all-Black school. A white school sat ...
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How a baby-faced Texas farmboy became the deadliest American infantryman of World War II

Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Army Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier of World War II Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier ...
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There’s a tree that owns itself in Georgia. Here’s how it happened.

Wikimedia Commons/Boston Public Library The Tree That Owns Itself in Athens, GA Most trees belong to someone, but not this ...
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The infuriating negligence that led to the Challenger disaster in 1986

Wikimedia Commons/NASA The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster On a freezing January morning in 1986, NASA ignored urgent ...