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2005

Stories Published in this Year

1930 75 Years Ago | November/December 2005 (Volume: 56, Issue: 6)

Lewis Wins the Nobel

Christmas Visitor | November/December 2005 (Volume: 56, Issue: 6)

Bringing light in a dark season

That Was The Day | November/December 2005 (Volume: 56, Issue: 6)

My dance with a future legend

The most ambitious exhibit ever on the war has just opened

A spectacular and painstaking PBS series brings the war to the screen

The Montgomery Bus Boycott and its legacy

The Power Of 2857 | November/December 2005 (Volume: 56, Issue: 6)

Fifty years ago this December, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus she was riding. Because she wouldn’t, the whole country has changed. But what happened to the bus?

It has taken us two and a half centuries to realize just how important this conflict was

The Tools | November/December 2005 (Volume: 56, Issue: 6)

Against this enemy, courage alone is not enough. From the beginning, firefighters have had to find ways to climb higher, shoot water farther, spot fires sooner. Here are some of the milestones in the history of fire-extinction technology.

There aren’t any. A man who helped keep the Bronx from burning explains why.

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