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How Stalin Ordered a Soviet Biologist to Breed a Human-Ape Army
In November 1926, a 56-year-old Soviet biologist named Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov arrived at the botanical gardens of Conakry, in the…
How Mary Foust Lived a Century in the Same Log Cabin and Became America’s Last Pioneer
On a cold winter morning in 1847, a uniformed stranger rode up the dirt path into Foust Hollow, Tennessee, and…
The Cook Who Became a Public Health Prisoner
Mary Mallon infected at least 50 people across New York without once falling ill herself, then spent 26 years quarantined…
The Tragic Story of Rosemary Kennedy, The ‘Hidden Kennedy’ Who Was Lobotomized by Her Own Father
After a botched 1941 prefrontal lobotomy performed without the knowledge of his wife or children, Joseph Kennedy Sr. reduced his…
The United Flight 629 Mid-Air Explosion of 1955, and the FBI Investigation That Traced the Bomb Back to a Son and His Mother’s Suitcase
On November 1, 1955, United Airlines Flight 629 took off from Denver just before 7 p.m., carrying 44 people toward…
The Fascinating Story of Christopher McCandless
On September 6, 1992, hunters following the Stampede Trail near Healy, Alaska, pushed open the door of an abandoned city…
