In September 2013, Cameron Kunzelman wrote about black T-shirts and the powerful men who wear them.
In the October 1946 issue, James S. Plaut, former director of the OSS's Art Looting Investigation Unit, recounted his work recovering art looted by Nazis such as Goring and Hitler.
The year you were born, Wilson Harris wrote about how then-Princess Elizabeth's education compared with that of an American girl of the same age.
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In June 2013, Colin Fleming wrote about 1963 as a formative year for the Beatles.
In October 2012, Megan Garber wrote about how Rather devised the influential storm radar broadcast.
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Over the years, the moon landing has come to be lauded as the pinnacle of human achievement, although it was often derided at the time. In 1963, NASA astronauts took to The Atlantic to plead the case for landing on the moon.
In March 2015, Irvin Weathersby Jr. wrote about what hip-hop can teach Americans.
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With NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005, humans landed a probe in the outer reaches of the solar system for the first time, a moment Ross Andersen called the most glorious mission in the history of planetary science.
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