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  • The Transcontinental Railroad

    The Transcontinental Railroad
    2026/10/31
    On 10 May 1869, a golden spike at Promontory Summit joined America coast to coast. The race across the plains, the Sierra tunnels, the workers written out of the photographs, and the price paid by Native peoples.
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    10 分
  • The Fall of Tenochtitlan

    The Fall of Tenochtitlan
    2026/10/31
    In 1521, after a seventy-five-day siege, the island capital of the Mexica fell to Cortés and his indigenous allies. Starvation, smallpox, and war on the lake ended an empire — and reshaped a continent.
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    10 分
  • The Great Fire of London

    The Great Fire of London
    2026/10/31
    In September 1666, a spark in a Pudding Lane bakery became a firestorm that destroyed most of the old City of London in five days. How a timber city burned, why the firebreaks came too late, and how Christopher Wren rebuilt the capital in brick and stone.
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    11 分
  • Gettysburg: Three Days in July

    Gettysburg: Three Days in July
    2026/10/30
    From 1 to 3 July 1863, some 160,000 soldiers fought at Gettysburg, the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. This is the story of Little Round Top, Pickett's Charge, and the speech that gave the battle its meaning.
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    12 分
  • The Dancing Plague of 1518: Strasbourg's Strange Summer

    The Dancing Plague of 1518: Strasbourg's Strange Summer
    2026/10/30
    In July 1518, a woman in Strasbourg began dancing in the street and could not stop — and within weeks hundreds joined her. This is the story of the dancing plague, the city's disastrous cure, and what modern historians think really happened.
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    10 分
  • Pearl Harbor: The Morning America Went to War

    Pearl Harbor: The Morning America Went to War
    2026/10/30
    On 7 December 1941, a surprise Japanese attack on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor killed 2,403 Americans and pulled the United States into the Second World War. This is the story of that morning, the ships and people caught in it, and why the attack failed in its deepest purpose.
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    11 分
  • The Sinking of the Lusitania

    The Sinking of the Lusitania
    2026/10/30
    On 7 May 1915 a single torpedo sank the Lusitania off Ireland in eighteen minutes, killing about 1,198 people — and turning American opinion against Germany.
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    8 分
  • The Great Molasses Flood

    The Great Molasses Flood
    2026/10/30
    In January 1919 a Boston molasses tank burst and sent a sticky wave through the North End, killing 21 people — and forcing America to take engineering safety seriously.
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    8 分