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World’s Oldest Space Launch Facility: The Baikonur Cosmodrome
About 1,300 miles (2,100 km) southeast of Moscow in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan, the world’s oldest and largest operational space launch facility is...
Project MKUltra
After the end of World War II, the climate of worldwide conflict changed and the dawn of the Cold War altered the direction of...
Concrete Arrows and the U.S. Airmail Beacon System
Scattered across the United States are a network of mysterious concrete arrows. They are often found in remote locations or areas difficult to access....
Budget Cuts: Detroit Schools
Over the last decade attendance in the Detroit school system has experienced a 50% decline, dropping from over 170,000 students to just 83,000 enrolled....
NYC Farm Colony & Seaview Hospital
Founded in 1830, the Staten Island Farm Colony was once a sprawling several-hundred acre campus. Sister facility Seaview Hospital was planned and built between...
Fort Carroll: Secure Bird Sanctuary?
In the mid-nineteenth century, Baltimore’s ports needed increased protection along the Patapsco River for the routes between Baltimore and Chesapeake Bay. By 1848, the...
