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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings…

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Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in…
In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York…
The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept…
Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the…
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963,…
Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a…
The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and…
Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can…
Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American…
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending…
Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are…

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