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For more than 100 years, a silent film about a fictional industrial fire in Chicago remained elusive to the safety science organization that commissioned the short motion picture. But in 2025, it resurfaced at the University of Maryland Libraries, uncovered by the preservation team. Why it landed there, stored alongside a collection of movies printed on an entirely

  As soon as Islamic extremists were identified as having carried out four deadly, coordinated attacks on U.S. soil in the early morning of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta started hearing calls from the public to ban Arab Americans and Muslims from all flights — and even to round them up

  Until the late 20th century, most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did not realize that founder Joseph Smith had practiced polygamy himself. After all, the Utah-based faith had kept pretty quiet about Smith’s involvement in the controversial practice — despite debating with its Missouri cousins in the then-Reorganized Church

  Spend enough time on the roads around the country, and you’ll start to notice that you’re seemingly passing through the same handful of towns over and over. Springfield. Franklin. Clinton. These are just some examples of common town names that pop up repeatedly across dozens of states. This phenomenon traces back to shared settlement