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Decrypted Renaissance 'dead letters' pioneer a new way to decode history
Researchers designed a way to open ancient letters without ever breaking their seal using X-ray technology.
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“Locked” for 300 years: Virtual unfolding has now revealed this letter’s secrets
Practice of intricately folding letters to secure them is known as "letterlocking."
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A Chapter In U.S. History Often Ignored: The Flight Of Runaway Slaves To Mexico
As the U.S. Treasury considers putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill to honor her role in the northbound underground railroad, new attention is being paid to the often overlooked southbound route.
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A 'Lamborghini' Of Chariots Is Discovered At Pompeii. Archaeologists Are Wowed
The well-preserved chariot, complete with decorative medallions depicting erotic scenes, is an "extraordinary discovery" that may have been used in wedding ceremonies.
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The inside of a WWI submarine was creepy and claustrophobic
Warfare before computers: A German U-boat from 1915.
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How Korea Became a Forgotten War
During the Korean War, the United States inflicted unimaginable horrors on the Korean people. Yet today Americans know almost nothing about their government's role in war crimes and atrocities.
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October Crisis: 50 years after a bloody spasm that nearly tore Canada apart
A campaign by Quebec separatists culminated in two kidnappings, a killing and the suspension of civil liberties
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The CIA's Appalling Human Experiments With Mind Control
The CIA tried to fight communism by dosing unwitting soldiers and prisoners with acid. ON APRIL 10, 1953, ALLEN DULLES, THE NEWLY APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF THE CIA, delivered a speech to a gathering of Princeton alumni. Though the event was mundane, global tensions were running high. The Korean War was coming to an end, and earlier that week, The New York Times had published a startling story asserting that American POWs returning from the country may have been “converted” by “Communist brain-washers.”
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Cherokee Supreme Court removes all references to 'blood' from tribal laws and constitution
The move draws sharp criticism from tribal legislators who say the court exceeded its authority by changing the constitution itself without a vote of the Cherokee people.
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She sued her enslaver for reparations and won. Her descendants never knew.
After the Civil War, Henrietta Wood made history by pursuing an audacious lawsuit against the man who’d kidnapped her back into slavery. Yet the story was lost to her own family.
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The battery invented 120 years before its time
At the turn of the 20th Century, Thomas Edison invented a battery with the unusual quirk of producing hydrogen. Now, 120 years later, the battery is coming into its own.
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Book review: The Husband Poisoner is about lethal ladies and dangerously tasty recipes
A new book, about the suburban women who poisoned their husbands in post-war Sydney, explores their cold-blooded modus operandi and the hot dinners they prepared.
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Violet Gibson - The Irish woman who shot Benito Mussolini
Efforts are being made to put up a plaque commemorating Violet Gibson in Dublin.
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Soviet 'Enigma' cipher machine sells for $22k at collapsed museum's exhibits auction
James Bond? Inspector Gadget? Yup, all here
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Why Jakarta is sinking
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How did ancient Egyptians bake? After 54 loaves, scholar finds answers
The technique implies covering the inside of the conical bread moulds with a layer of fine sandy clay, heating the moulds up horizontally and shaping the dough in advance into elongated pieces.
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Renaissance-Era Venetian Beads Found in Alaska Were There Before Columbus
These glass beads traveled from Italy to Alaska decades before Columbus “discovered” America.
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Egypt unearths 'world's oldest' mass-production brewery
A high-production brewery believed to be more than 5,000 years old has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists at a funerary site in southern Egypt, the tourism ministry said Saturday.
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Humans were drinking milk before they could digest it
Study of ancient Africans suggests dairy consumption predated evolution of lactase persistence genes
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The CIA Recruited 'Mind Readers' to Spy on the Soviets in the 1970s
Project Star Gate operated between 1972 and 1995 and attempted to offer, in the words of one congressman, "a hell of a cheap radar system."
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