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HOLY COW! HISTORY: The Ship That Tried to Save the Titanic (opens the original)
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What is it about that frigid April night that haunts us so relentlessly? More than a century has passed. Other tragedies have horrified us: the Hindenburg, Chernobyl, the Challenger. Each an intersection between mankind and technological progress where something went terribly, catastrophically wrong. Yet none surpassed our collective obsession with the giant ship that was supposed to be unsinkable, the iceberg that gashed a fatal hole, and the appallingly large loss of life that resulted from it
HOLY COW! HISTORY: Unsinkable Sam, the world’s luckiest cat (opens the original)
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Youâve heard about the Unsinkable Molly Brown, the brassy, nouveau riche millionaire minerâs wife who made it safely off the sinking Titanic. As incredible as that was, she had nothing on a remarkably feisty feline. Because he survived not one, but three separate ship sinkings ⦠and in wartime, too, no less. At least, thatâs the story. Listen to it and then decide for yourself. With that, get ready to meet Unsinkable Sam, the luckiest cat in the world. It would be all too easy to make a
HOLY COW! HISTORY: Blackmail and the blind senator (opens the original)
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Sex, scandal and politics have been an unholy trinity in Americaâs history since Day 1. In 1792, for example, three members of Congress quietly investigated Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamiltonâs hanky-panky with a married woman and the subsequent shakedown of $1,000 hush money â about $35,000 today â from her husband. Satisfied the cash had come from Hamiltonâs personal pocket and not public funds, the matter was discreetly dropped. A major scandal erupted when the public found out a
HOLY COW! HISTORY: The loss that saved countless lives (opens the original)
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Life was a struggle for Nathan Straus from the very start. In 1854, his Jewish family immigrated from Germany when he was 6. Told that business opportunities were good in the South, the family settled here. The small store and trading company they established did well until the tragedy that was the Civil War wiped it out. Convinced it would be decades before the South recovered, the family moved yet again. This time to New York. L. Straus & Sons followed, quickly becoming a leading importer and
HOLY COW! HISTORY: That time Daylight Savings was moved up (opens the original)
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In an age when it seems Americans canât agree on much, one thing â and maybe just one â enjoys broad popular support: scrapping the twice-annual clock change. Poll after poll shows a clear majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents think itâs time to stop the twice-annual pain in the neck. Congress is considering a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent. While this column never concerns itself with contemporary issues, the current debate makes this the perfect oppor
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