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The House that Ruth Built: The Story of the Old Yankee Stadium
In the 1920 season, Babe Ruth's home run hits drew 1.3 million fans to see the New York Yankees play at their home park, Polo Grounds. Despite breaking the million season record, this posed a problem to the Yankees, as the stadium was owned by their fierce rivals, the Giants. After a notice of eviction and the fiery 1921 World Series game between the teams, the Giants' owner Charles Stoneham and manager John McGraw made it clear: the Yankees had to go.Much to the Giants' dismay, the Ya...
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A Millennia of Chain Mail
Bookended by the collapse of the western Roman Empire in 476 and the beginnings of the Renaissanc...
California's Gateway: Building the Golden Gate Bridge
From the comfort of the present day, the Golden Gate Bridge seems like an inevitability, as much ...
Shrinking the World: The First Transatlantic Cable
Ten years after Samuel F. B. Morse sent the first telegraph message in 1844, the world was hooked...
Woolly Mammoths: Giants of the Pleistocene
Beneath the surface of the North Sea, a graveyard from another chapter of the Earth’s history lie...
Starting off Small: The Study of Dinosaur Eggs
The egg is an incredible natural structure designed to protect and support a growing body until i...
Is the Megalodon Still Alive? (Nope)
Sometimes the line between the animal kingdom and mythological creatures is a blurry one. The Oto...
Triceratops: More Than T-Rex Food
In the popular imagination, Triceratops is too often understood simply in the context of its pred...
The Fastest Computer in the World: Seymour Cray and the Cray-1
Computer advancement is always a matter of miniaturization. Data that once took a car-sized compu...
When the Sky Fell: The Chelyabinsk Impact
Ten years ago today, a flash of light streaked across the sky over Western Russia. For a brief mo...
