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Nazi submarine wreck found off Norway
The wreck of a German World War II submarine that was sunk with 48 people on board has been found off Norway's coast during work on an oil pipe, a maritime museum official said on Monday.
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Brief history of tattoos
The history of tattoo began over 5000 years ago and is as diverse as the people who wear them.
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How 1900's France thought 2000 would be
A series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards, the images depicted the world as it was imagined to be like in the year 2000.
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6,000-year-old stone penis unearthed in Israel
Penis statues and figurines were popular in the ancient world (especially in Rome), but it appears that our infatuation with the phallus goes back even further. This bad boy is 6,000 years old.
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The Ghosts Of Jonesboro: Fifteen Years After A School Shooting, A Small Town Is Still Recovering
On March 24, 1998, two children shot up a middle school near Jonesboro, Arkansas, killing five, wounding ten, and setting the benchmark for a horrifying trend in America.
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First Humans
First Humans, learn a little early humans. A female nicknamed Lucy.
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Pope Francis washes youths' feet at detention center
Pope Francis washed the feet of a dozen prisoners, including young women, at a youth detention center in Rome as part of a Holy Thursday Mass ahead of Easter.
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The Doll That Helped the Soviets Beat the U.S. to Space
Meet Ivan Ivanovich, the mannequin who beta tested space.
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Largest "Terror Bird" Fossil Found in Argentina
The real-life fossils belong to a new species of phorusrhacid, giant predators also known as terror birds that once dominated South America.
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Who Invented the Mirror?
The silvered-glass mirrors found throughout the world today first got their start in Germany almost 200 years ago.
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The largest computer ever built
While cold war jets are an old interest of mine, almost everything built to fight the cold war fascinates me.
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6 Famous People Who Eerily Predicted Their Own Deaths
It's always fun to speculate about how we'll die, like to break the ice during a party or while chatting in the subway with terrified strangers. We've all done that, right? Well. these people took it to a whole new level.
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The Ten Most Unbelievable Military Testing Videos
Sometimes the insane engineering projects the military industrial complex attempt actually work. Sometimes they don't.
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Tech Time Warp of the Week: The Original Macintosh, 1985
We give you one of the classic episodes of Computer Chronicles, a 1985 edition where Stewart Chiefet and crew run the rule over the Apple Macintosh, the seminal desktop machine that made its debut a year earlier.
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When Did We Stop Crucifying People?
Sado-masochist Robert Garrison will be nailed to a cross in public view in Los Angeles on Easter Sunday. Garrison says the display will honor the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, while others say it’s offensive to Christians. Is that why crucifixions disappeared from the Christian world in the first place?
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This egg is worth more than your car
Up for auction next month at Christie's South Kensington salesroom: this "very rare and complete" sub-fossilized elephant bird egg. Its estimated going price? Between $30,000 and $45,000.
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Just Look At These Lovely Illustrations From a 1968 Ad For Car Accessories
Long before Photoshop and Illustrator and all of the many powerful photo manipulation, illustration, and layout software we have today was available, people publishing magazines had two choices: look like crap or have lots of talent.
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Did Da Vinci Invent Google Glass?
Leonardo Da Vinci, the 15th-century Renaissance man, is credited with envisioning or outright inventing hundreds of modern-day devices; facsimiles of everything from a machine gun to parachutes and even today's helicopter can be found in his detailed drawings.
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The Red String of Fate
-An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet. regardless of time, place or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break.
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The Oldest Surviving Aerial Photograph
According to the Professional Aerial Photographers Association, the father of aerial photography was French balloonist Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, who photographed Paris from a hot air balloon way back in 1858. Unfortunately, none of his work remains today, and so the title of oldest surviving aerial photograph goes to the picture you see above.
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