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The Wright brothers achieve flight for the first time, December 17, 1903
December 17: The Day Aviation Soared
December 17 is a big day for aviation history. In 1903, Ohio bicycle makers Orville and Wilbur Wright took their homemade craft down to Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina and became the first to...

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1904 photograph of the children of J.A. Homeyer. Courtesy of the Queens Library,
Happy Holidays from 108 Years Ago
The tradition of the Christmas tree was already well-established in the United States by the end of the 19th Century. Although the first national Christmas tree wasn’t set up until 1913, (...

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Cornelis Claeszoon Anslo, Preacher, an etching by Rembrandt.
The Art of the Heist (of Art)
Art lovers had a lot to fret about recently: The Associated Press reported that on Tuesday, October 16, thieves broke into a Dutch museum and stole seven paintings by legendary artists such as...

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