2025
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Before New Orleans
Former Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, left, differentiated himself from other politicians of the time by dialing down post-9/11…
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Joe and Elon
As the chair of two powerful Senate committees, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, Wisconsin, seen in a March 1950 subcommittee hearing,…
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New Age dinosaurs
Tyrannosaurus rex chicks after the asteroid impact 66 million years ago experienced a deep freeze that likely lasted decades. Artist’s…
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Too close for comfort
On its way from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington, American Eagle Flight 5342, a regional jetliner (like the one shown here),…
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Minus Rapture
Elon Musk evaluates a SpaceX launch with Donald Trump in 2024. Little did the world then know Musk would be…
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Upheavalism
Artist Damien Mitchell’s “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle” mural can be seen just outside the Levee bar in New…
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A history of enmity
Former President Joe Biden shared pizza with U.S. troops from the 82nd Airborne Division at the Polish border with Ukraine…
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His reader’s voice
Whether you credit Edison or Emile Berliner with audio playback technology (that is, the phonograph or the gramophone), recorded talking…
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Fight club
In this political cartoon originally by William Allen Rogers, President Theodore Roosevelt tromps over the Caribbean using his oft-quoted “speak…
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Waiting for the Barbarians
This fresco by Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, now housed in the Vatican, captures the meeting of Pope Leo I and…
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