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National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear ...

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Mallory Atkinson is a modern-day homicide cop who got bumped back in time to 1869 Scotland, where she woke up in the body of Catriona Mitchell, a housemaid. That happened (more plausibly than you ...