Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped n
On a Sunday morning in 1982, in Des Moines, Iowa, Johnny Gosch left his house to begin his usual pap
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In communities across America, lawns that are brown or overgrown are considered especially heinous.
No matter which James Bond actor is your favorite, it’s undeniable that the Sean Connery films had t
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In 1933, delegates from the United States and fourteen other countries met in Montevideo, Uruguay to
By the late 1980s, AIDS had been in the United States for almost a decade. AIDS had be the number on
So many classic movies have been made in downtown Los Angeles. Though many don’t actually take place
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On the evening of May 31, 2009, 216 passengers, three pilots, and nine flight attendants boarded an
Sigmund Freud’s ground-breaking techniques and theories for therapy came to be called “psychoanalysi
People who make horror movies know: if you want to scare someone, use scary music. Some of the most
This week on 99% Invisible, we have two stories about the early days of broadcasting and home sound
On January 3rd, 1961, Che Guevara suggested to Fidel Castro that they go play a round of golf. They
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore, Maryland is a busy place. Anyone who dies une
We live in a post-billiards age. There was an age of billiards, and it has been over for so long, mo
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According to legend, Sarah Winchester’s friends advised the grieving widow to seek the services of a
