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The Earliest Adopters
Would there be a Facebook without Mark Zuckerberg? Nine years later, his Harvard classmates weigh in.
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The REAL face of Richard III
King who died in battle at 32 is brought back to life with reconstruction of 500-year-old skull found beneath council car park. Image was reconstructed from 3D scans of Richard's skull.
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Swallow's Nest castle
The neo-Gothic Swallow's Nest castle perches 130 feet above the Black Sea near Yalta in southern Ukraine. Built by a German noble in 1912, the flamboyant seaside residence is now a popular tourist destination.
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Makeup master Stuart Freeborn of 'Star Wars' dead at age 98
"Star Wars" makeup artist Stuart Freeborn, who helped create Chewbacca, Yoda, Jabba the Hutt and the otherworldly creatures in the trilogy's famous barroom scene, has died, Lucasfilm said Wednesday.
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The Nerds Who Won World War II
In 1943 the war looked unwinnable for the Allies. Here's how unsung innovators turned the tide.
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The Real Richard III
3D reconstruction and linguistic research reveal English king’s face, voice.
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Finally confirmed: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
A team of American and European researchers have confirmed that the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction -- the event that wiped out roughly 75% of the planet's species, including almost every dinosaur -- was caused by an asteroid impact in Mexico 66 million years ago.
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I was Hitler's food taster
Margot Woelk tells for the first time how she was forced to eat the Fuhrer's vegetarian meals to make sure they weren't poisoned
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World's largest captive crocodile Lolong dies in Philippines
Officials said the six-metre reptile, weighing more than 1,000kg, flipped over with a bloated stomach and was declared dead several hours later.
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Cambyses' Lost Army: Found at Last?
According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, sent 50,000 soldiers from Thebes to attack the Oasis of Siwa and destroy the oracle at the Temple of Amun. At some point during their march, the mighty Persian army was said to have been overcome by a sandstorm in the Egyptian desert. No one has ever found evidence of the army's remains.
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Did dinosaurs produce “milk” for their young?
As if putting feathers on dinosaurs wasn't insult enough, a radical new theory from Paul Else of the University of Wollongong is proposing that dinosaurs produced a kind of milk for their offspring, that they essentially lactated.
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The German General Who Told Hitler to Go Screw Himself
I am fascinated by colorful historical characters, especially military or naval figures. Very few of these people could be considered truly heroic. One of the rare exceptions is Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of a small German army – largely composed of black troops – that fought the British Empire in East Africa during World War I.
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The Craziest (and Some of the Best) Fashion Choices in Grammy History
Tonight, CBS will broadcast the 55th annual Grammy awards, and guess what? There is a dress code.
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6 Famous Things From History That Didn't Actually Exist
Nothing more perfectly demonstrates how history is one long, tortured game of telephone like finding out that parts of it just plain didn't happen.
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VHS Box Graphics
Sadly, VHS box design never reached the heights achieved by audio cassettes, but looking back they weren't as bad as I remembered. This set comes courtesy of Hauk Sven Via Flyer Goodness
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The World’s Oldest Pornography Is Prehistoric and Bi-curious
Prudes shouldn’t go into archeology. The patina of antiquity may make a carved ivory phallus, Venus figurine, or vulva painting on a cave wall priceless, communicating to us from a mute, distant past. But transplant those images to the modern world and you get dildos, Playboy, and Georgia O’Keefe.
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These Rare Full-Color WWII Photos Celebrate the American War Effort's Most Thankless Jobs
America's entrance into World War II and the unprescedented domestic mobilization effort that followed profoundly altered American society. Women not only entered the workforce en mass, they routinely worked in roles traditionally reserved for their male counterparts.
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Russia's Dyatlov Pass Incident, the Strangest Unsolved Mystery of the Last Century
54 years ago this month, the northern part of the Urals played host to one of the most fascinating unsolved mysteries in the modern age.
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Eyewitness Accounts of the Last Time a Heavenly Body Exploded Over Russia
In 1908, when an asteroid or comet fragment exploded about five miles above the earth's surface, destroying 800 square miles of boreal forest in central Siberia and uprooting 80 million trees, the area was so isolated that it took decades for eyewitness reports to emerge.
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5 Groundbreaking Firsts That Your History Books Lied About
It turns out that a whole lot of famous firsts are credited to the wrong people, due to politics, bad luck, or outright lies.
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