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The tangled history of humanity’s search for the solar system’s uncharted planets.
When the U.S. Army came for their land in 1877, the Nez Perce tribe complied. But tensions boiled over, and Chief Joseph led as they ran for their lives.
In 1970s Bali, a sudden rice crisis prompted an unexpectedly far-reaching scientific discovery
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Written by Marisa Brook and Christine Ro
The 15th-century scholar who upset the Korean aristocracy by creating a native script for the Korean language, and thus wean it off Chinese characters.
Written by Alan Bellows
The story of a treacherous contraption that appeared mysteriously in a Lake Tahoe casino.
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A true story of castaways on a lost and hostile scrap of land, all thanks to some meddlesome Frenchmen and terrible luck.