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7 Of The Creepiest Cold War Fallout Shelters
As a reminder of just how frightening the Cold War was, check out these old family-style bunkers from the pages of <i>Popular Science</i>.
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How Did the C-word Become Such an Offensive Insult?
The satirical newspaper the Onion offered a rare apology yesterday after it joked that 9-year-old actress Quvenzhané Wallis was “kind of a cunt, right?” Has that word always been so patently offensive? No. In Middle English the word could be used as a standard term for the female genitalia...
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What the White House Looks Like Completely Gutted
In the late '40s, the executive mansion was in a condemnable state. To save it, everything had to go.
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What do you do with a retired pope?
On Thursday, at 8 p.m. in Rome, Benedict will become the first retired pontiff in 600 years. And with no modern guides, everything he does will be pioneering for a 21st century papal retiree.
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LIFE Behind the Picture: The Liberation of Buchenwald
Survivors gaze at photographer Margaret Bourke-White and rescuers from the United States Third Army during the liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945.
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Scientific Sculptures of the Evolution of Human Faces
Sahelanthropus tchadensis As part of the Safari zum Urmenschen exhibition (translated as Safari to Early Humans) at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in…
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New Theory Tries To Explain Why Dinosaurs Grew So Huge — Especially Their Amazing Necks
Paleontologists struggle with a lot of mysteries in their field of study, not the least of which is exactly what allowed some dinosaurs to get so insanely huge. In particular, the enormous necks of sauropods like brachiosaurus, diplodocus, or sauroposeidon (tallest of all dinosaurs, 56 feet in height) have long baffled researchers.
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The Evolution Of Human Faces
The ancestral gallery presents a look at mankind's physical evolution that has been turned into a video depicting the gradual shift in facial features
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How the times have changed.
This book from the early 1900's would never fly in this day and age.
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The Fishy History of the McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish Sandwich
How a struggling entrepreneur in Ohio saved his burger business during Lent and changed the McDonald's menu for good.
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Fact Checking 'Argo': A Great Escape That Takes Some Leaps
Ben Affleck's Argo chronicles a covert operation to rescue six Americans during the Iran hostage crisis. Some of it's true, and some is just inspired by real events. Matt Baglio, co-author of the book Argo, helps NPR's Robert Siegel separate fact from fiction.
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We Didn’t Domesticate Dogs. They Domesticated Us.
Early humans didn't adopt wolves to help them hunt, argue scientists. Instead, wolves made the first move toward friendship.
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The True-Life Horror that Inspired Moby-Dick
The whaler Essex was indeed sunk by a whale—and that's only the beginning!
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Cracker Barrel's Oddly Authentic Version of American History
The casual dining chain uses thousands of real antiques and preserves a genuine part of U.S. culture.
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The Titanic time warp: We knew it was being rebuilt, but as these amazing new designs show, it really WILL be 1912 all over again
Australian, Professor Clive Palmer will recreate the Titanic in his new ship the Titanic II (pictured). The millionaire has released plans showing how the new ship will look.
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Evolution of humans
Go back! We fucked up!
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6 Inventors Who Changed the World And Got Screwed in Return
Some inventors get so little credit that we completely forgot about them, and since we really don't like angering the ghosts of people who could probably invent a way to punch us from beyond the grave, here they are.
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The rise and fall of quicksand.
The fourth-graders were unanimous: Quicksand doesn't scare them, not one bit. If you're a 9- or 10-year-old at the P.S. 29 elementary school in Brooklyn, N.Y., you've got more pressing concerns: Dragons. Monsters. Big waves at the beach that might separate a girl from her mother.
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Don't tear down this wall, Berliners urge developers
Developers are removing parts of the Berlin Wall to make way for a high-rise, luxury apartment complex.
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Brothel Menu from 1912 Is the Dirtiest Thing You’ll Read All Day (NSFW)
Intrepid feminist blogger Amanda Marcotte tweeted a filthy piece of history early this morning: an old timey (ca. 1912) brothel menu from the famed London fuckery run by Mrs.
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