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Topic: History (page 37)

Lena Headey in "Game of Thrones"

"GOT's" real-life inspirations

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc's secret backer

Peter Beinart (Guillaume Gaudet/Times Books)

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge known as "Galloping Gertie" during its 1940 collapse.

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Harvey Levenstein

Teddy Roosevelt vs. booze and sex in old New York

(<span about='http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/3123693186/' xmlns:cc='http://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/3123693186/' rel='license' target='_blank'>George Eastman House</a> / <a href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/' rel='license' target='_blank'>CC BY 3.0</a></span>)

Aaron Bobrow-Strain

Jeremy Irvine in "War Horse" (IMDB)

Adam Hochschild

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Matthew Barrett Gross, Mel Gilles

Barack Obama and Saul Alinsky (AP)

The activist who terrifies the right

Thomas J Sugrue

Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul (AP/Reuters)

Secrets of the world's most famous drawing

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The thrill of blaming others

Charlie Campbell

A detail from the cover of "Straight"

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How sex, bombs and burgers shaped our world

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The dark comedy of getting old

Guido Reni's "Bacchus"

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Tom Christensen

How I conquered my banking job

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-6833p1.html'>Robert Adrian Hillman</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Why we invented monsters

(Laurie Rosenwald)

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