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The nurse who quietly stopped New York’s last smallpox outbreak
In the spring of 1947, a deadly disease slipped into New York City undetected. What…
The prisoner who redesigned the jail holding him
He knew every weakness in the system. The warden knew it too , and handed…
The Navy built a fake city in California to fool enemy
In 1942, the U.S. military covered an entire aircraft plant with a full-scale fake neighborhood…
What really happened to Times Beach: the federal buyout that erased a town from the map
Times Beach, Missouri no longer exists on any map. The federal government bought it outright,…