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Brigido Lara, the Artist Whose Pre-Columbian Fakes Fooled Museums Around the World

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Hot Meals and Cold Cases: Solving Crimes at the Detectives’ Lunch Club

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The Polish Doctors Who Used Science to Outwit the Nazis

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How Eclipse Chasers Are Putting a Small Kentucky Town on the Map

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The Secret Cold War History of a Ruined Long Island Estate

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How a Single Mom Created a Plastic Food-Storage Empire

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The Race to Save Benjamin Franklin's Cracked Gravestone

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Black Holes: A Field Guide

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The Human Who Teaches Orphan Sloths How to Be Wild Animals

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The Most Amazing Lie in History

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The Female Jiu-Jitsu Crew That Defended Feminists in 1900s London

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St. Nick's Real Hometown Is an Ancient City in Turkey Entombed in Mud

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The Dark Side: An Oral History of 'The Star Wars Holiday Special'

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Beethoven: The World's First Rock Star

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Your Friend 'Til the End: An Oral History of 'Child's Play'

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101 Masterpieces: John Cage's 4'33"

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