Cross-country travel by plane? By the early 1920s, dreamers knew that one day people would fly across the country. The questions were when, how, and would it be safe? As […]
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The Harvey House business, founded by Fred Harvey in the late 19th century, played a significant role in shaping the dining and hospitality experience for those traveling west along the
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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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