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Frontier land grabs were won at the recorder's office, not the O.K. Corral. How forged patents, bought judges, and quit-claim deeds took the American West.

Until 1993 no text outside the Bible named King David. The one that finally surfaced was a boast by a king of Damascus claiming to have killed David's heir.

In 1972, South Vietnam's army stood against fourteen divisions with tanks and held its cities — and could not have held for a week without American air power. Both proofs are true about the same battles, and 1975 is what happens when only one still applies.