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Side-by-side footage shows how much New York City has changed over the last...

For centuries, New York City has been a major economic and cultural center. In the early 20th century, cameras began documenting the liveliness of the city for the first time. A lot has changed since...

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A massive project aims to identify millions of Vietnam War victims from their...

Scientists in Vietnam are set to embark upon the largest mass identification project in history, using DNA analysis techniques developed in Germany to determine the identities of millions of people who...

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One of the fanciest McDonald's restaurants in the world is a 150-year-old...

"Fancy" and "McDonald's" usually don't belong in the same sentence. But this Mickey D's location in Freeport, Maine looks pretty classy.As noted on Reddit, Freeport's only McDonald's in  was built...

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In honor of the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, here's the...

"I have a dream ... " We all know the words that start the famous speech.But Martin Luther King Jr.'s crowning moment may never have happened without one of the largest protests ever — the March on...

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It's been 25 years since the start of Operation Desert Storm

The Persian Gulf War was one of the last conflicts between conventional military powers, pitting a US-led coalition against what was then the fourth-largest military on earth.The US began its aerial...

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Why the beard might finally die in 2016

.Join the conversation about this story »NOW WATCH: Volkswagen's brand chief gave an extended apology before their CES keynote

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Here's the real story behind Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest moment

"I have a dream ... " We all know the words that start the famous speech.But Martin Luther King Jr.'s crowning moment may never have happened without one of the largest protests ever — the March on...

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7 awe-inspiring train stations across America

Some train stations do more than chauffeur busy commuters. Their incredible architecture make you want to wander their halls forever.America's railways started to blossom toward the end of the 19th...

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New York's subway system is so old that many of its parts are no longer...

The New York City subway is one of the longest, busiest, and oldest systems in the entire world.You'd expect something that sees nearly two billion annual riders to run on state-of-the-art equipment,...

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Animated map shows the time it took to travel the world 100 years ago

In 1914, English cartographer John G. Bartholomew created an isochronic map, a map that shows all points that are accessible in the same amount of time. Ships and railroads were the fastest modes of...

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Watch Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company make history with a monumental rocket...

Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company, has become the first company to ever launch, land, relaunch, and land the same rocket.Produced by Emma FierbergFollow BI Video: On FacebookJoin the...

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Watch 200 years of US border changes in 2 minutes

It didn't take long for the US to begin expanding westward after winning independence from British rule. By the mid-1800s, the country had pushed its territorial bounds across North America to the...

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16 vintage football photos that will get you pumped for the Super Bowl

This weekend was an important one for all football fans, as four teams went head-to-head to see who will compete in Super Bowl 50.On February 7, the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers will face...

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President Reagan gave this remarkably wise speech the day of the Challenger...

When President Ronald Reagan heard about the Challenger explosion the morning of January 28, 1986, he was preparing to give the State of the Union address that very night.He postponed the speech for...

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Our collective memory — just like our individual memory — is shockingly fallible

What were the greatest human catastrophes of the 20th century? When asked this question, most people answer the Second World War, followed by the First World War. The former killed around 50 million...

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Wall Street's unbelievable secret history

Wall Street and the surrounding financial district in lower Manhattan are a center of world commerce. But the streets beneath bankers' feet are rich with their own history and secrets. We took a trip...

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HAMILTON! Here's the true story of America's coolest founding father

What's so cool about Alexander Hamilton?Born a penniless bastard in the Caribbean, he would become a Revolutionary War hero and the genius behind much of America's government, all before dying in a...

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14 inspirational photos of Rosa Parks, who would have been 103 today

Today is Rosa Parks' birthday. The "mother of the civil rights movement" would be turning 103.Parks fought against segregation and the Jim Crow Laws of the time, and became a symbol of the civil rights...

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The fastest object ever launched was a manhole cover — here’s the story from...

When I first heard this story, I didn't believe it.How could an iron manhole cover be the fastest human-made object ever launched?I honestly pictured something akin to the exploding manhole covers that...

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This is the history of one of the world’s most popular food

Pizza is one of the world’s most popular food. It is also the world’s most photographed food on social media.In 2015, nearly 75,000 pizza restaurants sold nearly $39 billion worth of pizza in the...

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