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The Kent Amateur Radio Society team meets outside President Chris Cote's bus configured to receive satellite communications.

Dennis Rader, the so-called "BTK" (bind, torture, kill) killer, pleaded guilty to 10 slayings in the Wichita, Kan., area. He was sentenced to life in prison.

North Platte firefighters, who were called about 9 a.m. Monday to the house at 908 W. Eighth St., said about an hour later that they hadn’t found anyone inside.

What was the 1859 Carrington Event? As a massive solar flare, this event disrupted global telegraph systems and caused visible auroras all over the world.

In 1859, a South African declared himself emperor of the United States Elon Musk wasn’t the first South African to shape the national conversation. Joshua Norton, a San Francisco cult figure, was.

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Lawyer and nationalist Bhupendra Nath Bose was born on this day. He studied at Presidency College, Calcutta, and later obtained his law degree. He became a very successful lawyer. He was a follower of ...

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