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Barcelona's superblocks pushed cars out and cut pollution without choking nearby roads
A radical urban experiment in Barcelona defied its harshest critics—pushing cars to the edges of residential zones cut pollution and noise without strangling the surrounding streets.


Secret midnight repairs saved Manhattan's iconic tower from storm danger

A century after World War I, France still can't reclaim its devastated battlefields

Austrian village becomes tourist magnet after Chinese developer builds exact replica

Japanese coal island once held 5,259 people in 16 acres, then emptied completely

Billions in unclaimed money waiting in state accounts for you

Doctor mapped cholera deaths to one water pump before germ theory existed

Woman who bought Apollo 11 moon dust bag for $995 sold it for $1.8 million

Boston's blizzard mercy mission earned a century of Christmas gratitude

Radium-poisoned workers forced American companies to pay for workplace negligence

George Vanderbilt's forester created America's first managed forest
