Her stirring poem about a statue was almost forgotten. Today the statue still speaks in the voice of Emma Lazarus.
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In the 1890s, when Swami Vivekananda toured America, the twain of East and West met. They had more in common than they thought.
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FDR was lukewarm on Labor until Frances Perkins masterminded Social Security, the minimum wage, overtime, workmen’s comp. . .
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From a small bonfire on a beach, Burning Man has grown to 70,000 joyous Burners in the desert. Why not?
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The festival was 50 years ago and 50 miles away, but Woodstock, New York keeps the spirit alive.
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When he crossed America by convoy in 1919, the future president saw the need for “broader ribbons across our land.” The seed of our interstate highways was planted.
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The Mt. Palomar Observatory had no women's restroom. Until Vera Rubin taped a paper skirt on the door. Meet the woman who changed our view of the cosmos and of women in science.
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Beloved dogs abound but none captured hearts like Rin tin tin. Not even Hollywood could make this up.
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Snoopy is a salesman now but for five wonderful years, he broke all the cartoon rules and changed American comics.
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A refrigerator note. A spark of genius. A classic poem and the freedom it inspired.
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After Apollo 14, Edgar Mitchell kept soaring. ESP? Psychokinesis? UFOs? When you’ve been to the Moon, anything seems possible.
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When a radical Mexican muralist began to paint at Dartmouth, some wanted his work destroyed. The college president refused.
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The astronauts rehearsed every maneuver for the moon landing, except planting the flag. Oops!
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When The True Believer made his name, Eric Hoffer was a San Francisco longshoreman. Decades later, the zealots he labeled “true believers,” are still “everywhere on the march.”
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Once Frederick Douglass rose to speak, Independence Day no longer seemed so free.
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