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African geology may hold clues to prehistoric man walking upright
Being four-legged has its perks. As a quadruped, your center of gravity is lower, there's less wind resistance when you're running, and, best of all, you can use your hind foot to scratch your ear.
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The Mystery Of John Titor: Hoax Or Time Traveler?
This is our planet’s bleak future: a second Civil War splinters America, leaving the new capital based in Omaha. World War III breaks out in 2015, ending with three billion dead. Finally a computer bug delivers where Y2K sputtered, destroying our world as we know it. That is, unless an audacious time traveler successfully traverses the space-time continuum to change the course of future history.
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An 87-Year-Old World War II Veteran, Skydives To Support Ailing Great-Grandson
Clarence Turner of Fairfield made the jump Saturday with an instructor. He says he wanted to generate attention for the plight of 10-month-old Julian Couch, who suffers from a lung disease that could require a transplant.
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Netizen outrage after Chinese tourist defaces Egyptian temple
Parents of a 15-year-old Chinese tourist have apologized after the teenager defaced a stone sculpture in an ancient Egyptian temple with graffiti. The vandal carved 'Ding Jinhao was here' in Chinese in the 3,500 year old Luxor Temple.
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This Man Has Collected 200 Years of Beautiful, Odd, and Historic Bikes
You've never seen a bicycle collection so extensive and well-preserved as the one James MacDonald has obtained.
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Hitler’s Hospital: The Eerie Remains of Beelitz Sanatorium
In the last years of the nineteenth century the population of Berlin was expanding rapidly. The attendant issues of housing large numbers of people in cramped conditions were not far behind. By 1898 the German National Insurance Institute had a sanatorium built for the victims of tuberculosis.
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World's second-oldest man known dies at 113
Do 41,363 days sound like much time? You very likely won't live that long, but James Sisnett did.That's long enough to have seen the first silent movie, when it came out, provided a movie theater even existed back then on the island of Barbados, where Sisnett spent his life. He was three years old the first time Orville Wright took the first ever flight in an airplane and barely a teenager when World War I broke out.
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5 Celebrities You Won't Believe Were Badass Soldiers
Most celebrities are profoundly disappointing in real life. Not these guys.
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Kettle that looks like Hitler brews trouble for JCPenney
Trouble is brewing for an American retailer after customers noted that one of its tea kettles bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler.
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The USSR and US Came A Lot Closer to Nuclear War Than We Initially Thought
A series of war games held in 1983 triggered "the moment of maximum danger of the late Cold War."
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Child Abuse Evident in Ancient Egyptian Cemetery
The toddler died some 2,000 years ago, but fractures suggest violent shaking and direct blows.
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Why We Can’t Send Humans to Mars Yet (And How We’ll Fix That)
While humans have dreamed about going to Mars practically since it was discovered, an actual mission in the foreseeable future is finally starting to feel like a real possibility. But how real is it?
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Unique And Must-See Photos From Our Past
Photographs have long been used to record special and unique moments – birthdays, weddings and the occasional selfie are all commonplace. But these next 30 photographs go beyond the norm – they encapsulate the mood, tone and values of yesteryear, a compelling account of the evolution of our values if you will.From landmarks in history, strange feats of physical endurance through to peculiar devices & oddball characters we hope this series of images will astound, confound and enthrall you.
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Woolly Mammoth Blood Found in Preserved Carcass
Russian team says its discovery may yield living cells that could be used to clone the creature.
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‘Lost’ report over Brazilian tribal genocide has resurfaced after 40 years
A “lost” report into genocide, torture, rape and enslavement of indigenous tribes during Brazil’s military dictatorship has been rediscovered, raising fresh questions about whether the government has made amends and punished those responsible.
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Things Kids Today Will Never Experience
If you’re a kid today you’ve grown up in a world that has always had the Internet. A world where entertainment is literally at your fingertips 24/7. But as anyone who was born in the mid 80′s / early 90′s knows – that wasn’t always the case. Here’s 10 things that kid’s today will never experience.
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How Ethiopian scientist unearthed 'world's oldest child'
These are the skeletal remains of "Selam," a three-year-old girl who died 3.3 million years ago. She is the earliest skeleton of a child ever found.
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How 1985 guessed Michael Jackson would look like in 2000.
They couldn't even get the skin color correct.
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Here's what Pangea looks like mapped with modern political borders
Pretty wild, right? It's a map of Pangea — a supercontinent that formed roughly 300 million years ago — mapped with contemporary geopolitical borders.
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1939 New York City in vibrant color
A newly released, captivating film clip brings to colorful life the streets of New York City—in the summer of 1939. You read that right: The color footage, which comes from Romano-Archives and was recently released on the Web, is 74 years old
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