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On this day in history, June 16, 1884, first American roller coaster opens at Coney Island
Fox News via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoThe first roller coaster ride in America opened at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York, on this day...
Library of Congress launches 'Collective Memories' exhibit, showcasing pivotal moments in history
KSBW Salinas· 9 hours agoThe exhibit features an original copy of the Gettysburg Address – the same version historians...
Kevin Costner broke the bank on new Western odyssey ‘Horizon.’ It may just break him, too
Dallas Morning News· 3 days agoKevin Costner is no stranger to stakes. The film, which Costner wrote, directed, produced and stars...
Annalee Newitz on the sci-fi roots of the current "psyop" war
Salon via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoWhat the Ghost Dance tells is a story about what happens to North America when the white settlers go...
Biden, Obama raise more than $30 million at glitzy L.A. event
LA Times via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoNeither international conflict was discussed by Biden or Obama at the fundraiser. Late Friday night,...
John Wilmerding, who helped give American art an identity, dies at 86 - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 4 hours agoDr. Wilmerding helped give it one. From 1983 to 1988, he was the deputy director of the National Gallery of Art, where he donated his large collection of works by 19th- and 20th-century American painters.
China wants a fleet of aircraft carriers for pride and power, and it's building it at a breakneck...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA composite image shows the American flag flying near the bridge of the US Navy's first-in-class...
Glory to the Grand
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoHe returned with the story of the rain dance and helped break a long drought. Colonial Western history pegs the first successful trip through the Grand...
Fayetteville Chapter of Buffalo Soldiers award ABC11 reporter, photographer with certificate
WTVD-TV 11 Raleigh-Durham· 17 hours agoThe Buffalo Soldiers were African American soldiers who mainly served on the western frontier following the American Civil War.
The professors filmed themselves having sex with porn stars. Their university was not pleased.
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoBut all the escorts were female, mainly because male escorts were hard to find in western Wisconsin....