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And just as the other reindeer promised, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer did indeed go down in history. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
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The Jewish man who created a Christmas classic

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CBy 1860, large pine, spruce, and fir trees were harvested in Minnesota, floated down the Mississippi River on flatboats, and sold to eager Christmas tree customers in New Orleans and other Deep South cities. (iStock Photo)
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The woman who gave America the Christmas tree

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The Japanese wanted to use long-range Kawanishi H8K flying boats to bomb California and Texas. But first, they needed to know how repair operations were going at Pearl Harbor's naval yards, docks, and airfields. (San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive)
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The second time Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

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Facing pressure from the retail industry to add time to the holiday shopping season during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving earlier in the calendar -- or at least tried to. (AP Photo)
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Franklin Roosevelt’s biggest blunder: Trying to reschedule Thanksgiving

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Nearly 25 years after his passing, he's still remembered for them today. (AP photo)
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Richard Nixon’s five fatal words still follow him

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The Civil War is remembered as the time when blue fought gray. Yet it also contained a murky war within a war whose participants didn't wear uniforms or carry flags. (iStock)
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Terrorism, warfare, or just plain murder?

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Sen. George Murphy, R-Calif., was a former movie star with a sweet tooth who brought some bipartisanship to Congress in 1964 with his famed Candy Desk. The institution survives today and remains a place where lawmakers of any ilk are welcome to a handful of sweets. (AP Photo/John Rous)
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No matter how nasty it gets, senators still bond over candy

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The Fox sisters were typical adolescents living in upstate New York. (Wikipedia)
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Need a Halloween scare? Read the scary story of ‘the Seance Sisters’

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Starlings gather in huge flocks to pass winter by roosting together. We're talking thousands upon thousands of birds all hunkered down in one place at one time. (iStock)
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The crazy story behind Starlings, those annoying birds

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Scandal is nothing new in Hollywood. In 1921, after a young starlet died after being raped at a drunken sex party, film star Fatty Arbuckle was charged with manslaughter, generating nasty headlines and salacious gossip. (AP Photo)
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Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood can learn damage control from mistakes made a century ago

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