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+23 +3The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find
The US has lost at least three nuclear bombs that have never been located – they're still out there to this day. How did this happen? Where could they be? And will we ever find them?
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+11 +3300% Increase in Boob Size on Comic Book Cover Art
While loading tens of thousands of comic book covers to PriceCharting’s new online comics price guide , we noticed something interesting
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+14 +25 things you may not know about Neil Armstrong
As we celebrate the anniversary of humankind's first steps on the Moon during Apollo 11, we take a look at Neil Armstrong's life.
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+4 +1George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf
“It is a sign of the speed at which events are moving that Hurst and Blackett’s unexpurgated edition of Mein Kampf, published only a year ago, is edited from a pro-Hitler angle. The obvious intention of the translator’s preface and notes is to tone down the book’s ferocity and present Hitler in as kindly a light as possible. For at that date Hitler was still respectable. He had crushed the German labour movement, and for that the property-owning classes were willing to forgive him almost anything.
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+13 +1Underground beer cave built more than 150 years ago rediscovered in Iowa
While some locals had heard about it, the buried beer room had been lost for decades.
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+17 +3A billion here, a billion there: A new book tells the story of J. Paul Getty
In this age of inflation, when people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos don't need to blink about rising costs, a new book about a Minnesota oilman and his dynasty seems timely. In his day, J. Paul Getty was known as "the richest man in America."
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+10 +3Ed Dwight was in line to be the first Black astronaut. History had other ideas
In the 1960s, the U.S. was embroiled in a tense space race with the Soviet Union — and was losing. By the start of the decade, the Soviets had already sent the first satellite and the first man into space. So, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy made a pledge to the nation: The U.S. would land a man on the moon before the decade ended.
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+16 +1The Very American Tale of Why the Country Still Believes a Decades-Old Lie About the U.S. Flag
When Robert G. Heft was 17, he made a flag. In March 1959, Heft was a high school junior in Lancaster, Ohio, and the standard United States flag still had 48 stars: Alaska had only recently joined the union, and Hawaii’s admission was several months away. As an assignment for his American history class, Heft decided to make a new U.S. flag with 50 stars, which he cut out of mending fabric, ironed onto a rectangle of blue cloth, and attached to the stripes of a flag that belonged to his grandparents.
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+15 +3Paramount: we won’t remove content from eras with ‘different sensibilities’
Boss of media company says it would be a mistake to censor art because it may offend some people today
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+21 +2Ground zero for the Black Death finally found after 600 years
The medieval bubonic plague was first recorded in the 14th century.
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+23 +5How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera
An almost Machiavellian plot pitted Fairchild against Texas Instruments
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+23 +2Researchers reconstruct the face of a wealthy Bronze-Age Bohemian woman
Researchers were successful in reconstructing the face of one of the richest residents of Bolivia's bronze age. Here's all you need to know.
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+18 +2How People From 1955 Imagined Technology of the Future
In 1955, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce put together a slide show film titled “People, Products and Progress: 1975" to show off what American industry had in store for the technologies of the future.
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+20 +3DR Congo: Belgian king arrives in Kinshasa for first official visit | Africanews
Belgium's King Philippe arrives in Kinshasa for his first official visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), against a backdrop of remembrance work and reconciliation between Belgium and its former colony.
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+12 +2Colombia shares unprecedented images of treasure-laden wreck
Colombia's army has shared unprecedented images of the legendary San Jose galleon shipwreck, hidden underwater for three centuries and believed to have been carrying riches worth billions of dollars in today's money.
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+13 +1It’s Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore.
The surviving people in war photographs, especially the children, must somehow go on. We are not symbols. We are human.
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+12 +3Artificial Lives: On the Occult Origins of Chemistry and the Stuff of Life
Throughout history, scientists have tried to understand the characteristics that a chemical system must possess in order to be considered living.
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+15 +1The Disastrous History of Rikers
How a failed agenda of jail reform produced one of the country's most infamous penal colonies.
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+16 +6Benjamin Franklin gave instructions on at-home abortions in a book in the 1700s
Abortion rights continue to be the subject of fierce debate in the United States. But for one of America's founding fathers, they were as basic as mathematics and writing.
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+20 +3Caesar’s favourite herb was the Viagra of ancient Rome. Until climate change killed it off
Perfume, tonic – even love potion – silphium was prized by the ancient Romans, but in its success lay the seeds of its own downfall
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