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Thomas Edison’s Creepy Talking Doll: A Forgotten Flop from the Wizard of Menlo Park
Everyone knows Thomas Edison, the prolific inventor behind the phonograph and the electric light bulb, but what you might not know is...


The Life And Times Of Conjoined Twins Margaret And Mary Gibb
Born in Holyoke in 1912, Margaret and Mary Gibb toured with circuses across America and Europe before settling down to run a small gift shop together.


Operation Anthropoid: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the Price of Resistance
In the spring of 1942, two parachutists pedalled frantically through the streets of Nazi-occupied Prague. One was bleeding from a grenade...
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