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A great pitcher’s great temptation. • By Jennifer Lee Noonan • 28 October 2022
In 1924 a bankrupt businessman in Portugal launched an audacious international scheme to become one of the wealthiest men in the world.
Robert Rogers, a man obsessed with trespassing, sets his sights on Mount St. Helens in the spring of 1980.
The true story of a runaway Nazi, a determined sleuth, and a chase around the world.
In 1958, one heavily modified airplane flew out of Las Vegas with a single objective: Don’t land.
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