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How to reform an ancient Greek tyrant? Plato’s final advice to Dionysius the Younger was not well received.

Long overshadowed by Lindbergh, The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future by David Rooney returns Alcock and Brown to aviation's top flight.

In the early 20th century the prison population in England and Wales was in sharp decline, despite a rise in crime. 

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On 25 June 1922 Black activist Marcus Garvey found common cause with the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.