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The death toll from Hurricane Ike rose to 25 in nine U.S. states Sunday, as rescuers said they had saved nearly 2,000 people from waterlog
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There been an explosion in the number of colorized photos lately. People find old black-and-white photos online, and meticulously add color to give us a new perspective on history. But recently one colorized image caught my eye after it was tweeted by the notoriously inaccurate HistoryInPics. It a stunningly colorful view of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1940. But the photo is a lie. HistoryInPics scraped the image from Reddit user kibblenbits. But HistoryInPics never mentions th
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