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History In 1803 a woman in a strange round vessel washed ashore in Japan Ellsworth Toohey

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Science Scientists sterilized soil. It kept breathing for six years. Ellsworth Toohey

Entertainment Freedomland USA: was this 1960s theme park just a five-year land scam? Ruben Bolling

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