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The Worst Parade to Ever Hit the Streets of Boston

Boston had always been a town on tiptoe. Just a square mile in area, with a mere sliver of land connecting it to the mainland to the south, this tadpole-shaped island was dominated by three towering,…
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4182 words)
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The Secret Plot to Rescue Napoleon by Submarine

Tom Johnson, the famous smuggler, adventurer, and inventor of submarines, sketched in 1834 for the publication of Scenes and Stories by a Clergyman in Debt. Tom Johnson was one of those extraordinary…
AUTHOR:Mike Dash
PUBLISHED: March 8, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3642 words)

The Story Behind Banksy

When Time magazine selected the British artist Banksy—graffiti master, painter, activist, filmmaker and all-purpose provocateur—for its list of the world’s 100 most influential…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 24, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3160 words)

The House Where Darwin Lived

Charles Darwin lived with his wife, children and servants in Down House, a Georgian manor 15 miles south of London in the Kent countryside, for 40 years—from 1842 to 1882. Like all close-knit…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 24, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3423 words)

The Unsuccessful Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln

As he awaited the outcome of the voting on election night, November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln sat expectantly in the Springfield, Illinois, telegraph office. The results came in around 2 a.m.: Lincoln…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 18, 2013
LENGTH: 35 minutes (8969 words)

Are Babies Born Good?

Arber Tasimi is a 23-year-old researcher at Yale University’s Infant Cognition Center, where he studies the moral inclinations of babies—how the littlest children understand right and…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 10, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5675 words)

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Richard Von Gammon, a football casualty of 1897. Illustration: the Atlanta Constitution. On an apple-crisp fall day in 1897, an 18-year-old University of Georgia fullback named Richard Von Gammon…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1397 words)

Are Babies Born Good?

Arber Tasimi is a 23-year-old researcher at Yale University’s Infant Cognition Center, where he studies the moral inclinations of babies—how the littlest children understand right and…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 2, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5675 words)

A Look Into Brazil’s Makeover of Rio’s Slums

Marcos Rodrigo Neves remembers the bad old days in Rocinha, the largest favela, or slum, in Rio de Janeiro. A baby-faced 27-year-old with a linebacker’s build and close-cropped black hair,…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 31, 2012
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5123 words)
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