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New book uncovers hidden history of Chicago's Wrigley Building
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new book, The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon, explores the untold story behind one of Chicago's ...
The placebo effect of clichés
Take for instance, the expression ‘unity in diversity’, often used to describe the mind-boggling number of religions, races, ...
Secret museum tells the history of San Francisco trash
Inside Recology’s garbage collection hub for San Francisco, located in nearby Brisbane, is a somewhat secret museum devoted ...
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Eight Historic Moments That Took Place at the Waldorf Astoria New York
Hotel magnate Conrad Hilton fulfilled his dream to purchase the Waldorf-Astoria in 1949. He called the luxury hotel on Park ...
Railways were essential to carrying out the Holocaust. Decades later, corporate reckoning continues
With roughly 500,000 employees at the time, the company found itself in the crosshairs of the Nazi occupation. When France ...
Magnolia Fans! Your Guide to Chip and Joanna's Best Waco Spots is Finally Here
Visiting Waco? There's plenty of fun to be had after your trip to the Silos. Read on for our curated design lover's guide for ...
Factinate on MSN1d
Before Watergate, the Teapot Dome fiasco was the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.
When government officials were found taking bribes from oil industry bigshots, the scandal changed American politics forever.
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Remembering the 97 on the 36th Anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster
On the 15th of April, 1989, ninety-seven fans and supporters and children and parents and brothers and sisters went to a ...
The ancient empire that civilization forgot
They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...
Snowflake’s Switching Costs Are Not Mature Enough to Support an Economic Moat
In fiscal 2025, Snowflake’s total stock-based compensation expense surpassed $1.5 billion, or 43% of the company’s revenue, and the size of Snowflake’s stock-based compensation has been above 40% of ...
Archaeologists measure and compare size of 50,000 ancient houses to learn about history of inequality
In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...
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Behind the Scenes of Chicago’s Iconic Calumet Fisheries
Just beyond a pair of nondescript silos where 95th Street meets the Calumet River, the red roof of Calumet Fisheries beckons. It is a Chicago institution – a humble, one-room shack that has served up ...