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The 10 millionth Model T to come off the assembly line 100 years ago will commemorate the anniversary by traveling from New York to San Francisco in June.
Our team drove from Connecticut to California in 31 hours and 24 minutes, beating Alex Roy's average speed in the fastest minivan in cross-country history.
The incredibly racist San Francisco man who became dictator of Nicaragua
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William Walker did not have the look of a conqueror.
He was slim with thin, light hair and grey eyes that were a little too close together. His cheekbones were unnaturally high, giving his face a sickly gauntness. Newspapers compared him often to Napoleon, both because of his size and his ambition.
In the summer of 1853, because William Walker was a narcissist and a racist, he decided he wanted to be the president of a country. He is not particular about locality whether in Lower California, Sonora, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, or elsewhere,” the Sacramento Bee wrote, “so that he can only be made President and Dictator of some populated spot on this hemisphere.