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Skirmishing about environmentalism may well continue forever, but the major war is over. It lasted far longer than most people realize.

Without his brilliance at espionage, the revolution could not have been won.

A curious discovery on the Florida seashore, when a water cannon destroyed a suspicious package later found to contain miniature portraits by the celebrated American painter Gilbert Stuart

In a century and a half, it has produced six sublime, increasingly expensive boats, and competition so ferocious that it's beginning to transcend national allegiances.

Two hundred years after his birth, Americans still revere him as a martyr and loathe him as a fanatical murderer. What was he?