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The Burgess Shale
Soft-Bodied Fossils and the Cambrian Seafloor
Radiocarbon Dating
How Carbon-14 Put a Date on the Past
James Clerk Maxwell
The Equations That United Electricity, Magnetism, and Light
Florence Nightingale
Scutari, Statistics, and the Making of Modern Nursing
Barbara McClintock
Jumping Genes, Maize, and a Nobel Thirty Years Late
Louis Pasteur
Germ Theory, Pasteurisation, and the Rabies Vaccine
Ernest Rutherford
The Gold Foil Experiment and the Discovery of the Nucleus
The Daguerreotype
The First Practical Photograph and the Decade It Ruled
The Modern Olympic Games
Athens 1896 to the Present
Johannes Gutenberg
Movable Type and the Spread of the Printed Book
Brown v. Board of Education
The 1954 Ruling and the Long Fight to Enforce It
Tulip Mania
What Actually Happened in the Dutch Bulb Market
The Johnstown Flood
A Private Dam, a Public Catastrophe
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
146 Deaths and the Labour Laws That Followed
The Hindenburg Disaster
Why the Airship Burned and Why Airships Ended
RMS Titanic
The Design, the Sinking, and the Inquiries That Followed
The First Transcontinental Railroad
Union Pacific, Central Pacific, and the Golden Spike
The Panama Canal
Locks, Landslides, and the Defeat of Yellow Fever
The War of the Currents
Edison, Westinghouse, Tesla, and the Fight Over AC and DC
The Chernobyl Disaster
The Reactor Test, the Evacuation, and the Exclusion Zone
The Apollo Program
From the Fire on Apollo 1 to the Last Landing
The Hubble Space Telescope
The Flawed Mirror, the Repair Mission, and the Deep Field
Mount Vesuvius
Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Volcano That Is Still There
The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake
The Quake, the Tsunami, and the Birth of Seismology
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