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Nobody Asked the Horses, Part 2
Horses amidst the machinery of war
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The Brief But Spectacular Era of Balloon Mania
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Watching the Gladiators
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Faces of Death
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The Volcanoes and the Paintings
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Nobody Asked the Horses
Horses at war, part I
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The Garden of Our Dreams
A short history of the Garden of Eden
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Plumage and Plunder
Humanity's disastrous craze for feathered hats
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San Francisco, 1906
The day before -- and the decade after -- the earthquake
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The Terror, Beauty, and Community of Eclipses
3,000 years of fascination with the disappearing sun
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Who Were the "Barbarians?"
Depictions of foreigners in Greek and Roman art
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Isthmus Be the Place
The Panama Canal, from dream to reality
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To Resist a Fall: the Strange History of the Parachute
Three centuries of floating toward the ground
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The Fighter Still Remains
Ancient boxing and its modern revival
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Looking Through the Past
Looking Through the Past
Illuminating forgotten corners of history and using them to think about the present
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