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  • How the Pill Works poster image canonical_images/feature/Pill_cycle_canonical.jpg XXX Article
    The Pill | Article

    How the Pill Works

    Scroll through a month and monitor the changing balance of hormones in a woman's reproductive cycle.

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    Seabiscuit | Article

    Seabiscuit's Obituary

    America’s favorite underdog died young, succumbing to a heart attack at age 14.

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    Seabiscuit | Article

    Racing and Radio Broadcasts

    Many of Seabiscuit's fans listened to his races on the radio, the revolutionary technology that came of age just as Seabiscuit did. 

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    Seabiscuit | Article

    Breeding Thoroughbreds

    Most modern-day racehorses are thoroughbreds. The name accurately describes this breed of horse: they all have been very thoroughly bred.

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    Seabiscuit | Article

    A Jockey's Hard Life

    Between 1935 and 1939 when jockeys did not wear flak jackets, goggles, and helmets 19 jockeys were killed in racing accidents. 

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    Seabiscuit | Article

    The East-West Rivalry

    The spirited rivalry between Seabiscuit and War Admiral was also a battle between the era’s dominant Eastern racing establishment and the upstart Western one.

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    "Seabiscuit-itis"

    As the Depression hovered persistently over the nation, Americans turned to one newsmaker with joyous devotion Seabiscuit.

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    Racing in the Depression

    In the 1930s, impoverished state governments returned to the potential honey pot of horse racing to increase revenues.

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    Seabiscuit | Article

    George Woolf

    Woolf earned his spurs riding in Montana and soon became a phenomenon in the minor leagues of racing.

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    War Admiral

    For as much attention as Seabiscuit received, the horse was not considered the fastest for most of his career. That distinction went to War Admiral.

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    Tom Smith

    Again and again, Tom Smith took ordinary horses and made them winners.

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    Agnes Conlon

    Jockey Red Pollard fell in love with his private nurse, Agnes Conlon, who cared for him at the hospital.