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Chicago Stories | Jane Addams: Together We Rise | Season 3

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(inspiring music) - [Narrator] Coming up, Jane Addams. - Her vision of society was radical. - She wasn't a temperamental rebel, but she ended up in rebel territory. - [Narrator] An activist ahead of her time. - [Louise] Addams thought she would socialize democracy across class lines, across race lines. - [Narrator] She spearheaded a movement. - [Stacy] Lobbying Congress and pounding the pavement, cleaning the streets of Chicago, trying to improve the world. Read More...

NOVA Online | Faster Than Sound

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Fastest Airplane | Boat | Car The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is, to date, the fastest airplane ever to streak across the sky, even though it's more than 30 years old. Capable of speeds over 2200 miles per hour—that's more than three times the speed of sound—the SR-71 can fly at altitudes above 80,000 feet. What does it feel like to travel at Mach 3, 15 miles above the earth? Pilots report that, with no view out the window, there's an eerie sensation of motionlessness when cruising in the Blackbird. Read More...

Ron Jeremy Net Worth

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Outside the adult film industry, Jeremy worked as a "special consultant" for the 1986 film 9½ Weeks. He appears in the 1996 horror film They Bite in a role making a film-within-a-film (Invasion of the Fishfuckers) – another horror film, both in the same vein as Humanoids from the Deep. He also served as a consultant on the 1997 film Boogie Nights—which chronicled the emergence of the fictional porn star Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg, loosely based on the life of porn star and former co-worker of Jeremy's John Holmes)—and the movie The Chase, in which he has a small cameo as a news cameraman. Read More...