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On This Day, July 6: 'Forrest Gump' opens in U.S. theaters
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 6 hours agoOn July 6, 1919, a British dirigible landed at New York's Roosevelt Field to complete the first...
'Stable genius': Joe Biden mocks Trump's July 4 claim about George Washington and airports
The Raw Story· 16 hours agoPresident Joe Biden has responded to calls to drop out of the 2024 presidential race with his own...
What You Could Buy With $100 the Year You Were Born
GOBankingRates via Yahoo Finance Canada· 20 hours agoInflation, on the whole, is a good thing for the economy. When money is worth more today than it will be tomorrow or next year, people are incentivized...
A 216-acre park on Long Island is home to 4 mansions straight out of 'The Great Gatsby' — take a...
Business Insider via Yahoo Canada News· 22 hours agoHarry Guggenheim and Charles Lindbergh.Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images Source: Library ...
How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy
Smithsonian Magazine· 23 hours agoDuffy’s ads claimed the fantastical: that it cured everything from influenza to consumption, that it...
Meet the American who made us flip for hamburgers, Louis Lassen, Danish immigrant street-wagon cook
AOL· 1 day agoLouis Lunch is so old-school there is no history class. The New Haven, Connecticut eatery is considered the birthplace of a national culinary treasure. The hamburger — specifically ...
On This Day, July 5: Larry Doby becomes 1st Black player in MLB's American League
United Press International via Yahoo Canada News· 1 day agoFranklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act to protect the rights of employees and...
Moby Bob
Courthouse News Service· 1 day agoA whale saved my life. What is true, for purposes of this column, is that after I turned in my Ph.D. thesis in comparative religions to a Bored of...
Six other presidents didn’t run for another term. Here’s what happened then
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 2 days agoLyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, Calvin Coolidge, Rutherford B Hayes, James Buchanan, and James K Polk....
Opinion: This July 4th, a different way to celebrate the history we share
CNN.com· 2 days agoEditor’s Note: Lonnie G. Bunch III is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Carla Hayden is...
