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Forgotten tale of the Chinese workers who built an American railway
Author Gordon Chang gives a comprehensive account of the 20,000 Chinese who worked on the Central Pacific transcontinental line in the late 1860s.
11 Jun 2019 - 6:11AM
History’s deadliest single animal? The tiger which ate 440 people
The Champawat tiger was thought to have killed and eaten about 440 people over a span of about a decade in colonial India. A new book details its trail of destruction, the hunter who killed it, and the people it preyed on.
6 Mar 2019 - 8:32PM
Walk on the riled side
18 Feb 2002 - 12:00AM
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