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The Transcontinental, the railroad that made America.

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln decided to build a transcontinental railway line, connecting the Pacific coast with that of the Atlantic.

Six years of titanic work to overcome this challenge.

Omaha, the largest city in Nebraska, has been dubbed "the Gateway to the West."

On May 15, a train from the East Coast arrived in Sacramento.

It took a week to cover a distance that the wagons took six months to cover.

The dream has come true.

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Many vigilantes who inspired the legends of the Wild West have existed.

Between settling of scores, robberies, arrests and manhunts, the acts of arms of these impulsive and violent individuals have also forged the legend of the American West.

Whether it's Billy the Kid, Calamity Jane, Jesse James or the Daltons, their stories are still being told today.

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Hello everyone ! Discover the true story of the Dalton brothers!

The Dalton brothers really existed and became famous for their multiple attacks on banks and trains.

But before they became highwaymen, Emmett, Bill, Grat, and Bob were role models.

Three brothers, three lawyers who abuse their authority as Marshalls, extort traders, steal horses.

They are all the less embarrassed because Washington regularly delays sending their paychecks.

Emmett, the only Dalton who survived a massacre, will also contribute to the notoriety of the Dalton.

Sentenced to life imprisonment on March 8, 1893, he was sent to a Texas state prison. His good behavior earned Emmett his release after fourteen years.

So at 36, he married his faithful Julia, became a real estate agent in California and wrote his memoirs, before working in the cinema.

In 1916, he played his own role in The Man of the Desert: actor on the Frontier and then in Hollywood, he embodied his own legend during his lifetime, before dying in Los Angeles in 1937.

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About half of the cowboys were people of color.

It is a little-known reality of the conquest of the West: at the end of the 19th century, 45% of cowboys were black, Mexican, mestizo or Indians.

In the 1930s, one of them, Bill Pickett, even became a star.

He invented bulldogging, a technique that involves jumping off your horse to control a cow - or even a bull - by grabbing it by the horns!

The rodeos of the time made it an official event. And Bill Pickett, who attended, was dubbed the "black demon."

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The largest star in the Universe is currently being absorbed by a black hole.

For the first time, a black hole has been caught ripping and swallowing a star that's too close.

Scientists, who until now had only witnessed the aftermath of such events, claim that the observation highlights "relativistic jets", shards of matter that spring up at almost the speed of light.

At the center of virtually all large galaxies are super massive black holes.

These monsters, which are millions to billions of times the mass of the sun, can tear through passing objects, gravitational pulling at the stars in gigantic versions of how our moon pulls over Earth's oceans to generate tides.

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There is a planet that could be made entirely of diamonds.

New research by scientists at Yale University suggests that a rocky planet twice the size of Earth orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet.

“This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with fundamentally different chemistry from Earth,” said lead researcher Nikku Madhusudhan, Yale postdoctoral researcher in physics and astronomy.

"The surface of this planet is probably covered with graphite and diamond rather than water and granite."

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