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How Washington's 'summer of fire' nearly destroyed Seattle, Spokane and Ellensburg
On the cusp of becoming a state, the Washington territory suffered three major fires that would change the course of history.
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How Washington’s most infamous bridge failure helped engineers prevent more
On this episode of Mossback's Northwest, Knute Berger looks back at what Puget Sound learned from the Tacoma Narrows bridge disaster.
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Ted Bundy is still a cultural phenomenon. The real story is much scarier
VIDEO: On this episode of Mossback's Northwest [https://crosscut.com/mossbacks-northwest], host Knute Berger looks back at March 12, 1974, when a young student left her Evergreen State College apartment and never returned.
Culture
How Washington gave the world flying saucers and 'men in black'
On this episode of Mossback's Northwest [https://crosscut.com/mossbacks-northwest], a look at what happened on June 24, 1947, when a pilot flew near Mount Rainier.
Culture
Meet the Seattle mayor with a secret white supremacist past
He also founded the city’s first daily newspaper.