It’s History

I didn’t know carriers sailed on Lake Michigan
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Times Beach, Missouri, grew in the early 20th century from a newspaper marketing stunt into a bustling Route 66 weekend destination with over 2,000 residents. A dust-control campaign led a local waste-oil hauler to secretly mix industrial dioxin into road spray, causing one of the United States’ most devastating environmental disasters. The documentary examines the contamination’s impact on residents, the 1982 flood that sealed the town’s fate, and the large federal operation that buried the town’s remains under a man-made hill.

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I explored Chicago’s most dystopian tower 🏙️
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In 1718, French settlers built New Orleans in a delta swamp to secure vital trade routes. The city sits in a natural depression—up to twenty feet below sea level—and is surrounded by the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. This documentary explores the engineering measures that keep the city alive: Wood Screw Pumps that move billions of gallons of water daily, canals that run higher than the land they protect, and how land subsidence compounded disaster during the failures of Hurricane Katrina. #NewOrleans #Engineering #History
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I can’t believe this mansion was built nonstop for 38 years
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