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Rome's Birthday, DNA's Secret & the Worst Soft Drink Decision Ever
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From the founding of Rome in 753 BC to a cosmonaut's fatal final journey, this week in history spans millennia of politics, science, sport, and spectacular human error. Twelve stops, many centuries, one calendar week — buckle up.
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On August third, fourteen ninety-two, in the small port of Palos de la Frontera in southern Spain, Christopher Columbus led three ships out of harbor and pointed them west into the unknown Atlantic. The Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria carried a crew of around ninety men on a voyage with no guaranteed destination and no guaranteed return.
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