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New Pixelated Camouflage Uniform

In this video clip of History's Mail Call, host R. Lee Ermey, along with Lt. Col. Gabe Patricio, takes a look at how the Marine Corps designed their new pixilated camouflage pattern. The goals were to...

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Fill 'Er Up

Rob and Dennis amuse the Namibian locals with their custom-built safari vehicle before heading out to the desert.

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Eyewitness Account of Hindenburg Disaster

On May 6, 1937, WLS radio reporter Herb Morrison describes the arrival of the zeppelin Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey, after a three-day transatlantic voyage from Frankfurt, Germany, when the...

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Ozone Hole Recovery

A 1986 study of the South Pole determined the cause of a hole in the ozone layer and led to an international treaty banning the production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). Twenty years later, in an...

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First Transatlantic Telephone Call

On January 7, 1927, the first official transatlantic telephone call is made when W. S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, calls Sir Evelyn P. Murray, secretary of the...

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First Telephone Call Sent Around the World

On April 15, 1935, in the Long Lines Building at 32 Sixth Avenue in New York City, W.S. Gifford and T.G. Miller of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company take part in a historic phone call. While...

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World's First Cloned Sheep

On February 22, 1997, scientists in Scotland announce the creation of the world's first mammal to have been successfully cloned from an adult cell. Alan Colman, one of the scientists involved,...

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Google Goes Public

On April 29, 2004, Google, one of the most successful Internet search engines, filed for its initial public stock offering. A May 2 news report explains the company’s plans for an online auction, an...

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World's Oldest Recording

On April 9, 1860, 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville made a recording on a "phonautograph," which worked by tracing sound waves...

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Alexander Graham Bell's Early Recordings

In the early 1880s, in an effort to secure a patent of his own after Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph, Alexander Graham Bell made a number of experimental recordings using a variety of...

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Beerhead

Find out what causes beerhead, the foam on top of a glass of freshly poured beer.

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Brain Freeze

Did you know that the average American consumes 21.5 quarts of ice cream per year? It's no wonder we're so familiar with the dreaded side effect: brain freeze.

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Early Airbag Tests

Faced with mounting highway fatalities in the early 1970s, the federal government ordered automakers to develop inflatable safety airbags. NBC News reports on the difficulties encountered by mechanical...

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Albert Einstein Calls for an End to Atomic Proliferation

Though an outspoken pacifist since World War I, Albert Einstein had urged the United States to build nuclear weapons in the face of rising Nazism and the atrocities of World War II. However, after the...

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Thomas Edison on the Development of Electricity

In a speech recorded on an Edison Gold Moulded cylinder for the opening of the New York Electric Show on October 3, 1908, Thomas Edison reflects on the technological advances of the era.

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Ford Pinto Reckless Homicide Trial

A news report outlines an upcoming criminal trial against the Ford Motor Company, set for January 15, 1980. The car manufacturer was charged with reckless homicide in the deaths of three Indiana...

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The Printing Press

Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized printing with his invention of mechanical movable type.

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Wright Brothers

Their flight at Kitty Hawk made history, but did the Wright brothers invent the first airplane?

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Ask History: Who Really Invented the Light Bulb

Thomas Edison wasn’t the only inventor to lay claim to the light bulb, so whose bright idea was it? Ask History finds out.

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A World Without Bats

What if the world's bats vanished? Jon Hoekstra of the World Wildlife Fund considers what a world without bats would be like.

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