Topic: history
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Those Old Color Photographs of Paris You've Been Seeing? Not Quite Real.
Here's what the originals look like.
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The History Behind Why NYC Drops an 11,875 Pound Ball on New Year's Eve
Wouldn't explosions in the sky be preferable?
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Mississippi's Capital City Doesn't Have a Movie Theater. Will That Ever Change?
The city has been struggling to recruit one since 2009.
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Videos
A 70-Year-Old Documentary About Cities Shows We Haven't Come Very Far
The walkable, bikable suburb of the "future" looks an awful lot like the smart growth ideas of today.
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The Quiet Rise of the Much-Maligned Condo
You may be living in one yourself in the near future.
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Photos
Visions of the Past: Recreating World War II in Today's Cities
A photography project reminds us that soldiers surrendered and prisoners marched on the same streets we walk along every day.
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Photos
Pre-Sprawl Aerial Images: 'The Next Best Thing to a Time Machine'
Compare every corner of Connecticut, from 1934 to today.
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The Big Fix
New York State's Curious, Century-Old Law Requiring Every City and Town to Have a Historian
Is this still a good idea?
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50 Years After the Beatles, Liverpool Is Back
England's Detroit has boosted its cultural offerings to become a tourist magnet.
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You've Heard of Skyscrapers. But What About a 'Depthscraper'?
It's basically a giant hole in the ground, designed to withstand Japanese earthquakes.
