Phil Edwards
Former correspondent
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The blue glass craze was the greatest health fad of the 1870s.
Harriet Tubman won a recent poll to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20. But there’s another surprising reason she’s appropriate.
Why did Kate Monday leave? Why was Mathnet canceled? We’ve calculated the answers to the biggest Mathnet mysteries.
When AOL made — literally — all the CDs in the world.
These 5 examples show that tackiness is timeless.
This chart shows just how incredibly tall modern buildings have gotten.
This tree shows how American history has grown. Now follow the branches through time.
“Big Bird is never just a puppet”: Carroll Spinney has a lot to say about being the world’s most famous bird.
This is how Caligula, Nero, and more of Rome’s most unusual emperors found power.
Pigeons can do a lot more than deface statues.