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How medieval glassmakers made red glass glow

When Fifth Avenue became America’s palace row

The strange shadows before totality

Irene of Athens seized the Byzantine throne

The wartime explosives still buried beneath Ypres

The sun-protection secret behind giraffe tongues

When eyewear became a gentleman’s accessory

When vacuum cleaners arrived by horse-drawn wagon

The soldier who witnessed two systems of racism

How Arlington became Lee’s permanent exile