American beauty products were once widely exported abroad and seen as representations of freedom and modernity.

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Frederick Coville and Elizabeth White, two strangers, domesticated the blueberry together. They valued beauty and worked to support local communities.

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German female pilots played an active role during World War II—acting as perpetrators and collaborators even as they broke barriers for women in flight.

Digital Doppelgängers may share your name, but you can still claim your own digital identity.

Ernest Hemingway's famous, career-launching debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, was so autobiographical, it was essentially gossipy reportage.

Dürer's image of a rhinoceros which drowned off Italy 500 years ago remains one of the world's most famous prints.

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As one of her day’s most famous Southerners, Helen Keller was uniquely poised to point out—and challenge—that troubled racial heritage.