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Supernatural women, occultism and rocket fuel: Say hello again to Jack Parsons, a Suicide Squad original.
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Nazi Germany falls, and the United States sees opportunities to beef up its rocket research even further.
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In the third part of our series on the Red Scare, we discuss the rise of Tsien Hsue-Shen, a promising aeronautical engineer who went from being on Caltech's radar to the radar of the FBI.
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Frank Malina, an early member of a group of rocket pioneers at the Jet Propulsion Lab known as the Suicide Squad, eluded the glare of McCarthyism and found solace in Paris.
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A local history about the extraordinary lives of a generation of female daredevils.
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And what it says about the 'Land Back' movement. “This is our one home. There is no other homeland or mother country. That means everything to us.”
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A national name in the '20s and '30s, by the next decade he was forgotten.
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The Black civil rights attorney fought against redlining policies in L.A. and nationwide.
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