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What Is Earth’s Velocity?

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Why Are Planets Round?

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Why Is Pluto No Longer a Planet?

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Is Earth Going to Change the Direction in Which It Rotates?

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Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

Super Typhoon Noru over the western tropical Pacific Ocean as observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA Aqua satellite July 31 2017

What Is the Difference Between a Typhoon and a Super Typhoon?

Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that

America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)

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Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution

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Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Why Is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Celebrated on a Thursday?

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Also Known As	Elizabeth Cochrane • Elizabeth Cochran
Born	May 5, 1864 • Pennsylvania
Died	January 27, 1922 (aged 57) • New York City • New York
Notable Works	“Nellie Bly’s Book: Around the World in Seventy-two Days” • “Six Months in Mexico” • “Ten Days in a Mad House”

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Walter Lippmann

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Isabel Wilkerson

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Dave Barry

Dave Barry

American humorist and author

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens

British-American writer

Garry Wills

American historian, journalist, and author

Ted Koppel

Ted Koppel

American journalist and news broadcaster

Tim O'Brien

Tim O’Brien

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Jill Abramson

Jill Abramson

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Anna Louise Strong

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Ackerman, Diane

Diane Ackerman

American author

Quindlen, Anna

Anna Quindlen

American writer

Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington

Greek American author and commentator

Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

American author

Joseph Pulitzer, detail of a portrait by C. de Grimm from The Curio, November 1887.

Joseph Pulitzer

American newspaper publisher

McPhee, John

John McPhee

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Renata Adler

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David Halberstam, 2006.

David Halberstam

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Amy Goodman

American journalist, columnist, and author

Theodore H. White

American historian

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Women in Art and Literature: Who Said It?

Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane), c. 1890. Head and shoulders portrait from a cabinet card by H.J. Myers.

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