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    Texas City Disaster: Deadliest Industrial Accident in U.S. History

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    Across the bay from Galveston in Texas is Texas City, a busy port with convenient access to Houston and the Gulf of Mexico. In...
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    Abandoned Industrial Icon: Armour Meat Packing Plant

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    The Armour & Company meat packing plant in National City, Illinois is a window into a bygone era, a time capsule with late-19th century...
    Overhills

    Overhills: Former Rockefeller Estate Sequestered on Fort Bragg

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    For more than one hundred years the idyllic Overhills golf and hunt club in the foothills of North Carolina has remained hidden from the public...

    Budget Cuts: Detroit Schools

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    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....
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    World’s Largest Super Collider: Abandoned

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    A supercollider is a large ring designed to accelerate particles of protons and anti-protons until they collide. Its purpose is to create large amounts...
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    Glenn Dale Hospital: Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Asbestos Asylum

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    Thirty minutes east of Washington D.C., a collection of brick buildings are deteriorating on a sixty-acre campus buried in a residential pocket of Glenn...
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