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A group of armchair historians dedicated to telling the greatest story of all time.

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Jack Kerouac’s death, 50 years later

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After the Gold Rush, California almost went to war over eggs. And the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco served as the de facto "battlefield."

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