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		<title>The Case of the Sleepwalking Killer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 01:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rufus Choate approached his client just before the bang of the gavel, when Albert J. Tirrell was sitting in the dock, 22 years old and on trial for his life. It was March 24, 1846, three months after his arrest in the gruesome murder of his mistress. The defendant wore an olive coat with gilt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The House that Polly Adler Built</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polly Adler, the most celebrated brothel keeper in New York’s (and arguably the country’s) history, proudly proclaimed her goal to become “the best…madam in all America.” For more than 20 years she ran a string of brothels throughout Manhattan, her business card—featuring a parrot on a perch—bearing an East Side exchange: LExington 2-1099. From the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paris or Bust: The Great New York-to-Paris Auto Race of 1908</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Nascar is a multibillion-dollar business whose history and rich mythology are rooted in money; Southern liquor-runners and moonshiners gave the earliest, postwar version of the sport much of its tone. But long before the advent of stock-car racing, competitive drivers cared less about prize or profit than about simply completing the course. The men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Who Wouldn’t Die</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plot was conceived over a round of drinks. One afternoon in July 1932, Francis Pasqua, Daniel Kriesberg and Tony Marino sat in Marino’s eponymous speakeasy and raised their glasses, sealing their complicity, figuring the job was already half-finished. How difficult could it be to push Michael Malloy to drink himself to death? Every morning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prohibition’s Premier Hooch Hounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As midnight approached on January 16, 1920, New York was in the throes of a citywide wake. Black-bordered invitations had been dispensed weeks before, announcing “Last rites and ceremonies attending the departure of our spirited friend, John Barleycorn.” The icy streets did little to deter the “mourning parties,” which began at dinnertime and multiplied as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Chess Champion’s Dominance—and Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the time Paul Morphy was felled by a stroke on July 10, 1884, he had become an odd and familiar presence on Canal Street in New Orleans: a trim little man in sack suit and monocle, muttering to himself, smiling at his own conceits, swinging his cane at most who dared approach. Sometimes he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbi-Chaplains of the Civil War</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 03:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rabbi Dr. Arnold Fischel arrived at the White House on the morning of Dec. 11, 1861, prepared to act as a one-man lobby for the constitutional rights of Jews. He had traveled alone from New York, on his own dime, bringing several letters of recommendation from prominent Republicans and one from the Board of Delegates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Civil War: 8 Strange and Obscure Facts You Didn’t Know</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gertrude Stein said it best: “There will never be anything more interesting in America than that Civil War.” And of course interest is high, now that we’ve begun commemorating the sesquicentennial anniversaries of the war’s key events. For the First Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas, to Southerners) last July, re-enactors descended upon Gainesville, Virginia, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Daredevil of Niagara Falls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently signed legislation permitting Nik Wallenda—self-proclaimed “King of the High Wire” and descendant of the legendary Flying Wallendas—to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Wallenda plans to run a cable, two inches thick and 2200 feet long, between two cranes raised 13 feet from the ground. To train, he will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Score One for Roosevelt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen Abbott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On an apple-crisp fall day in 1897, an 18-year-old University of Georgia fullback named Richard Von Gammon launched himself into Virginia’s oncoming rush and vanished beneath a heap of players. He was the only one who didn’t get up. Lying flat on the field at Atlanta’s Brisbane Park, he began to vomit as his teammates [...]]]></description>
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