The three-day feast was about giving thanks, but it wasn't much like today's holiday.
They lived a lie to save lives. This is the true story behind "Argo."
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
-William Shakespeare
These frozen space travelers captured the world's attention.
The sightings were concentrated around the Los Alamos and Sandia atomic-weapons laboratories, and other highly sensitive military installations.
The famous comet named for astronomer Edmond Halley only passes by the Earth roughly once every 76 years, but its appearances have often played a surprising role in historical events.
Meteors, comets and asteroids have slammed into the Earth with a force many times greater than the most powerful nuclear bombs. Sometimes, mass extinction followed.
Take a journey through the history of science fiction and examine the cultural influences such as the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and space exploration, that influenced Stanley Kubrick's 1968 visionary film "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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