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By far the most unusual aspect of the Empire State Building’s design concerned its 200-foot tower. Convinced that transatlantic ... -
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Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler—better known by her stage name Hedy Lamarr—became a big screen legend in the 1930s and 40s for starring in such Hol...
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There was a short-lived plan to add 11 floors to the Empire State Building. Shortly after the World Trade Center towe... -
Thomas Jefferson usually gets credited as America’s inventor-in-chief, but Abraham Lincoln is the only president to hold a U.S. patent. In 1...
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Despite the colossal size of the project, the design, planning and construction of the Empire State Building took just 20 months from ... -
Though best known as the author of children’s books such as “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and “James and the Giant Peach,” Roald Dahl ...
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It’s hard to imagine the genius behind the Theory of Relativity tinkering with something as mundane as a kitchen appliance, but Albert Einst...
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The master magician behind the “milk can escape” and the “Chinese Water Torture Cell” made a career out of extricating himself from tight sp...
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In the late-1780s, a few years after he helped fuel the American Revolution with pamphlets such as “Common Sense,” the writer and political ...