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The Central Pacific prided itself on its workmanship.

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The Central Pacific's best hope was a dangerous gamble: liquid nitroglycerin.

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Workers dug tunnels through mountains in Utah and laid track in the Wyoming desert.

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Watch Chapter 1 of The Swamp.

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Scott Carpenter was both a NASA astronaut and an aquanaut with the U.S. Navy.

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Hamilton Disston visioned the Everglades into dry land for cultivation.

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A reporter for The Miami Herald, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas advocated for conservation.

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The plume trend let to the mass slaughter of the highly prized plumed birds in Florida.

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The Okeechobee Hurricane claimed one of the highest death tolls of any natural disasters.

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Who the hell is Diane Nash?

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Tony Sarg's sea monster stalked the coast of Nantucket before the Macy's Thanksgiving Day.

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In 1878, Randall McCoy accused a relative of Anderson Hatfield of stealing their hog.