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Young Harriet Tubman Photograph
  • 29 April 2016
A viral image is not a photograph of African-American abolitionist Harriet Tubman as a young...
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Young Harriet Tubman Photograph
Cocktails Came Out of Prohibition?
  • 14 April 2016
A long-running claim that cocktails were an entirely American invention appears to be something of...
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Cocktails Came Out of Prohibition?
Height of the Texas Giants
  • 19 January 2016
A photograph shows four Texas brothers who were all said to be nearly 8 feet...
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Height of the Texas Giants
Golden Fate Bridge
  • 27 October 2015
A popular photograph does not accurately depict a worker standing on the cables of the...
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Golden Fate Bridge