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Nellie Bly 1864-1922
Born Elizabeth Cochran in Pennsylvania, Nellie Bly is most famous for her record-breaking 72-day trip around the world, emulating the journey taken by Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg. She was also known for her investigative journalism and was once mistak
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What Drives Our Addiction To War?
Why war? Albert Einstein posed this question to the psychologist Sigmund Freud in a series of letters sent in 1932, at the prompting of the League of Nations Institute for Intellectual Cooperation. He was disappointed with the answer. Freud told him
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Born in the late 10th century, Eilmer of Malmesbury was an English Benedictine monk famous for one of the earliest recorded attempts at human flight. Only sparse details of his life survive, in a passage from William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglo

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