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The Story of the Teacher Who Integrated New York Transit

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(via Atlas Obscura) In 1854, Elizabeth Jennings was forcibly kicked off a horsecar. Her fight changed the city.

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(via Smithsonian) In the late 1940s, paraplegics popularized the sport—and changed the game for the disability rights movement

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(via Mental Floss) For jotting down notes, sketching elaborate monster rampages over cities, or just capturing your thoughts, people love

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(via Mental Floss) When you think of 19th-century women’s literature, it’s likely you automatically think of the Brontë sisters, Jane

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(via Grunge)While the Gregorian calendar has taken over the world for most people’s calendrical needs, keeping track of time didn’t

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(via Smithsonian) A new book examines the recipes of a dozen cooks who made groundbreaking contributions across the food industry

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(via Mental Floss) Julia Child was much more than just a bestselling cookbook author and chef. Over the course of

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(via Great Big Story) John Collins, the “Paper Airplane Guy,” studied origami and aerodynamics in a quest to design the

(via Great Big Story) Twenty-four-year-old Frenchman Guirec Soudée set out to see the world from a different vantage point: his

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(via Great Big Story) Tejas Sidnal is an architect who believes people in his profession have a responsibility to rid

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(via Listverse) Wedged between Poland, Belarus and Latvia, the northeastern Europe nation of Lithuania may, at first, seem easy to

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(via Mental Floss) On August 17, 1945, legendary British author George Orwell—who also penned 1984—published Animal Farm, a satirical allegory