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From 1978 to 1996, New Jersey hosted a ride-at-your-own-risk water park that earned it the nickname “Class Action Park.”

Sarah Forbes Bonetta escaped slavery, but had little control over her destiny.

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The term “America’s Sweetheart” first appeared in the early 1900s, back when motion pictures were still a novelty.

New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor down a manhole following a raid during prohibition 1921.

For five episodes across one week, the threat of nuclear annihilation was looming in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.

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Reopening the case of one of the biggest scandals in music history.