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Dress worn by Judy Garland in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ lost for decades, to be auctioned
The classic blue and white gingham dress had been missing for decades before it was found last year. It could be sold for anywhere between $800,000 to $1.2 million, Bonhams said.
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30 Years Later, the Fall of the USSR Still Haunts Xi Jinping’s China.
A documentary, looking like a reminder for the CCP, lists 5 lessons to be learned from the fall of the USSR.
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How a Determined Congressional Aide Helped Break Open the Biggest Environmental Scandal in U.S. History
Thousands of Niagara Falls residents lived in a toxic wasteland for years until a whistleblower made a call.
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A miniature manuscript written by Charlotte Brontë to go on sale for $1.25 million
A rare manuscript written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 13 years old will go on sale at a New York City book fair later this month.
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Before Jerry Sandusky, Penn State football had another serial sexual predator. This is the untold story of his crimes and the fight to bring him to justice.
When Jerry Sandusky's crimes came to light in 2011, the world thought it was the first time Joe Paterno and Penn State had faced a serial sexual predator in their midst. But that was not the case. This is the story of the predator who had come before.
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Researchers home in on possible “day zero” for Antikythera mechanism
arXiv preprint suggests December 23, 178 BCE; others think it was summer 204 BCE.
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Ancient fashion: 3,200-year-old pants on Chinese mummy are like modern-day jeans
The design was as intricate as that of modern-day, factory-fabricated denim jeans, and just as durable. The ancients had fashion.
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Mystery of multiple extinctions in the Jurassic solved
The only halfway realistic aspect of “Jurassic Park” may be that the land was thronged with life, much of which with fangs. One can hardly generalize about the weather 200 to 145 million years ago, but the Jurassic by and large seems to have been warm and wet. The fact is that a lot of new species emerged in that time, from the lumbering stegosaurs and gigantosaurs to the earliest known proper birds – yes, your duck had ancestors back then. Tiny rodents began to emerge. In the Late Jurassic, the fearsome allosaurus arose too. And no, it isn’t a T-rex.
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Yes, Colonialism Caused Climate Change, IPCC Reports
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its final report Monday. The Frontline explores the significance of the sixth report finally naming “colonialism” as a historical and ongoing driver of the climate crisis. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its first report in 1990. Over 30 years later, the word “colonialism” finally made its way into the IPCC’s sixth assessment report. The panel’s working group two report, which looks at the impacts of climate change on people...
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The Traditional Beauty Of Nintendo's Playing Cards
Before there was Mario, Nintendo made Japanese cards
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Machu Picchu has been called the wrong name for over 100 years. Historians reveal its true name
Some mistakes are hard to shake. For over 100 years, one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world, Machu Picchu, has been known by the wrong name, according to a report published in Ñawpa Pacha: Journal of the Institute of Andean Studies.
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Vanilla-Scented Beaver Butt Secretions Are Used In Food And Perfume
For 80 years, foods and perfumes have contained castoreum, an anal secretion beavers use to mark their territories, which smells like vanilla.
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How did Europe become the richest part of the world?
In a time of great powers and empires, just one region of the world experienced extraordinary economic growth. How?
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95 Years Ago: Goddard’s First Liquid-Fueled Rocket
Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) is recognized as the father of American rocketry and as one of the pioneers in the theoretical exploration of space. Goddard dreamt of exploring the Earth’s upper atmosphere and ultimately space using rocket propulsion.
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Could Putin actually fall?
What history teaches us about how autocrats lose power — and how Putin might hang on.
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Ally Sheedy Left Hollywood. Then Came ‘Single Drunk Female’
“It was this all-consuming love affair in my 20,” says the ‘Breakfast Club’ and ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ star of her career. Here’s why she stepped away—and decided to return.
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Harriet Tubman Is Famous for Being an Abolitionist and Political Activist, but She Was Also a Naturalist
The Underground Railroad conductor's understanding of botany, wildlife biology, geography and astronomy allowed her to guide herself and others to safety
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Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536, what historians and scientists believe was the 'worst year to be alive'
Science has made a strong case for the year 536 as being one of the worst in human history, a year punctuated by volcanic eruptions, drought, famine and plague - and a year long winter.
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Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic
What was one of the world's greatest undiscovered shipwrecks is identified on the Antarctic seafloor.
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New technique unlocks ancient history of Earth from grains of sand
Lead researcher Dr. Milo Barham, from the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group within Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the team devised a metric, which determines the "age distribution fingerprint" of minerals known as zircon within sand, shedding new light on the evolution of the Earth's surface over the last few billion years.
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