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Seventy miles west of Denver, in a small town nestled 8,574 feet above sea level there rests the town of Fraser. Today an enclave of 1,400 hearty souls it was...
In the late 1750s and early 1760s, the Seven Years’ War, an intercontinental struggle that would largely determine the power structure of the world for the nex...
Caste. Race. Gender. These were the three categories that, in early twentieth century Madras, combined to determine the boundaries of an individual’s potent...
Walking into a doctor’s office, most of us feel that we are crossing into the domain of some manner of super being, an individual who has stared steadily into ...
On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of Alamogordo, New Mexico. At the time, it was not clear what might...
There’s a lot to like about plain old, everyday space. No matter where you are, there’s always a way to get to where you need to go, and you can always f...
The Red Planet has not always been kind to those who have given their lives to its study. Before the rise of rover-based observation, Mars had a particul...
Cultures are strange creatures. What you can do and say, who you can love and when, who you may kill and how, are all subject to the accretion over the c...