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September 2026.
Every featured lorelet from September 2026, free to read and hear. Each is the whole story, cited claim by claim.
Sep 30 · Film & TV
The Pixar Lunch That Conceived Four Animated Classics
In the summer of 1994, four Pixar staffers went to a diner while Toy Story was still finishing up and, over lunch, sketched the outlines of A Bug's L…
Sep 30 · Art & Design
Lost in Plain Sight: The Rediscovery of Church's The Icebergs
A monumental Arctic painting by America's most famous landscape artist spent decades hanging unrecognized in an English boys' home before selling for…
Sep 30 · Sports
The Night Football First Flickered Onto TV Screens
On a September afternoon in 1939, two clunky cameras on Randall's Island quietly launched American sports television, and almost nobody watching the…
Sep 29 · Crime
The Man Who Flooded Missouri to Ditch His Wife
In 1993, a levee near Quincy gave way and drowned 15,000 acres of farmland. Prosecutors said James Scott broke it so his wife couldn't come home from…
Sep 29 · History
The Two Planes That Landed as One
Over a paddock in New South Wales, a 22-year-old trainee pilot flew a wrecked, welded-together pair of bombers to a landing nobody thought possible.
Sep 29 · Film & TV
The Night Disney Showed Critics an Unfinished Cartoon
In September 1991, Disney took a half-finished Beauty and the Beast to the New York Film Festival, pencil tests and all, betting that hardened cineph…