Grand Central |
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At Woodlawn, in the Bronx, as the train rounded a curve, it flew off the tracks. In an instant 20 people were killed and 150 injured.Â
Grand Central |
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Grand Central Terminal's builders pioneered the concept of air rights.
Grand Central |
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After almost ten years of renovation and reengineering, the new Grand Central Terminal opened to the public precisely at midnight on February 2, 1913.Â
Grand Central |
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AÂ deadly accident at the old Grand Central Depot in 1902 led the busy terminal to be redesigned. Explore the evolution in photos.
Kit Carson |
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The life of Kit Carson embodies the contradictions in the story of the American West.
Grand Central |
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On February 1, 1913, New Yorkers rushed to see the opening of Grand Central Terminal.
Annie Oakley |
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How accurate was Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show?
Buffalo Bill |
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Buffalo Bill Cody was a meager plainsman turned international celebrity and frontier hero.
Walt Whitman |
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Although he did not have much formal schooling, Whitman was alive to the world around him, wandering through the natural bounty of Long Island and through the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Walt Whitman |
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While in Washington, D.C., Whitman discovered that he had something to contribute to the war effort — himself.
Walt Whitman |
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Whitman did not have a high opinion of the ten percent of Brooklyn residents who were of African descent, yet he thought slavery abhorrent.
Walt Whitman |
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There was one man whose praise Whitman desired and cherished more than any other: Ralph Waldo Emerson.