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Thirteen years ago, William Dranginis saw Bigfoot. Fifty grand, a van, and a camera in a log later, the quest…

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It All Comes Down to This

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By Eric Wills
| The American Scholar Verified
Perhaps it was the stultifying heat wave that swept through the Mid-Atlantic in early July, making the couch in my air-conditioned living room seem especially inviting, or the depressing malaise of our national politics, or my despondence over tennis demigod Carlos Alcaraz’s absence from the French Open and Wimbledon because of a wrist injury, but the pleasures of this summer’s World Cup—which ended with Spain’s triumph over Argentina—proved more glorious than I anticipated.
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How a physician’s DIY device got Americans to the top of Everest

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By Eric Wills
| National Geographic Verified
On his firstclimb in the Himalaya, in 1960, Thomas Hornbein was left gasping for air. The 30-year-old American and future National Geographic Explorer was a fit, capable climber. The problem was his clunky, multivalve oxygen mask. Hornbein, an anesthesiologist, set out to design a better one. By chance, he met a man who could manufacture it: Fred Maytag, appliance magnate and a patient at the hospital where Hornbein was a fellow.
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How an Auction House Finally Sold Dan Snyder’s Controversial Mansion

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By Eric Wills
| Washingtonian Verified
On a December night in New York, in a ballroom at the Pendry Manhattan West hotel, one of the longstanding questions in Washington real-estate circles—a subject of much dinner-party gossip and media speculation—was finally ready to be answered.
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