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Bastille Day, Trinity Test & Nadia's Perfect Ten | Jul 13–18
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From the storming of the Bastille to the world's first nuclear detonation, this week in history delivered seismic moments across five centuries. Plus: DiMaggio's untouchable streak, the Rosetta Stone, and the scoreboard that couldn't handle Nadia Comaneci.
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On October twelfth, fourteen ninety-two, somewhere in the chain of islands now known as the Bahamas, a lookout aboard one of Christopher Columbus's three ships spotted land. Columbus had sailed west from Spain convinced he could reach Asia that way.
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