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Jamestown's Dark Winter

The Struggles of Jamestown in the Early 1600s

Jamestown is doomed from the start: The colonists settle on a marshy island with no fresh water, where crops fail and malaria flourishes. Two years after its founding, the desperate colony of Jamestown still cannot feed itself. Already this is the third expedition sent to ...

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The Man Who Saved the World

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The little-known story of how close to nuclear destruction the world really was during those dark October days and how the heroism of one man saved us all

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