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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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Written by Alan Bellows
On 30 October 1961, over the island of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Sea, Soviet scientists detonated the most powerful...
Written by Alan Bellows
In 1982, operatives from the USSR's Committee for State Security--known internationally as the KGB--celebrated the pr...
Written by Morgan W.R. Dunn
From the depths of poverty, Du Yuesheng rose through Shanghai’s underworld to become one of the most influential, and overlooked, figures in modern China.