Today movie theaters are most successful with blockbuster action films. One hundred years ago, movies were exciting and new. Developers built giant movie palaces for those who could afford to […]
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Today, e-mail travels in a matter of moments, text messages arrive in real time, and almost all items sent through the U.S. Mail spend at least part of their time on an airplane.
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Several generations of Americans remember My Weekly Reader as a source of news in the schools. The goal of the four- to eight-page weekly paper, which was distributed via the
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Today the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is a worldwide symbol of opulence and the grand life of those who live in New York City, but this wasn’t how the tree
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Just as the development of e-mail in the 1990s changed the love letter, the technology of the 1920s forever altered the love song. In the late nineteenth and early
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The method by which yellow fever spread was proposed by Dr. Carlos Finlay (1833-1915), a Cuban physician. It took twenty more years for the Reed Board (Army Surgeon Walter Reed)
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