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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…
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In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York…
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept…
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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…
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Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963,…
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Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a…
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The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and…
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Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can…
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American…
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Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending…
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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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On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd…
— Jimmy Carter
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Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.
— William J. Clinton
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When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want…
— Rudy Giuliani
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On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and…
— Unknown Author
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The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet…
— Elaine Chao
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I had thought I would be sentenced to death based on the emotions and anger toward me for the deaths on Sept.…
— Zacarias Moussaoui
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In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation…
— John Mica
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[The answer to that, warns Saddam's eldest son, is no.] If they come, ... Sept. 11, which they are crying over and…
— Uday Hussein
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Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the…
— Osama bin Laden
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Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's…
— John Bolton
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Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it…
— John F. Kerry
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