Watergate: A Clear Timeline
A timeline of the Watergate scandal, from the 1972 break-in to the White House tapes, the Saturday Night Massacre and President Nixon’s resignation in 1974.
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The Theranos Collapse
How Elizabeth Holmes built Theranos into a $9 billion company on the promise of finger-prick blood tests, how the truth came out and what the trials decided.
The War of the Worlds Panic: What Really Happened in 1938
Did Orson Welles’s 1938 Martian invasion broadcast send America into mass panic? What happened that night, and why historians say the panic was overblown.
The Piltdown Man Hoax: How a Fake Fossil Fooled Science for 40 Years
In 1912 a skull from an English gravel pit was hailed as a missing link. In 1953 it was exposed as a forgery. How Piltdown Man fooled experts, and who did it.
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The Teapot Dome Scandal
How secret oil leases and hidden payments in the Harding administration became the Teapot Dome scandal, and how a cabinet secretary ended up in prison.
The Dreyfus Affair
How Captain Alfred Dreyfus was wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, how forged evidence and antisemitism kept him imprisoned and how he was finally cleared.
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