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    Try explaining Michael Douglas to people who weren't there.

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    How New Advances in Genetic Genealogy—And a Worried Phone Call from a Friend—Inspired One Crime Novelist

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    Remembering Joseph Hansen's Groundbreaking Dave Brandstetter Series

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    In Weimar Germany and into the Nazi Era, flamboyantly dressed misfits, most of them gay, created a distinct counterculture in the woods around Berlin.

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