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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 May twenty-fifth, nineteen sixty-one, before a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy made a declaration that stopped the room cold.
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