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World War 2 - Missing Nazi Diary Recovered
The Nazi diary of Alfred Rosenberg disappeared without a trace after his trial in Nuremberg. Sixty-four years later it's been recovered in upstate New York.
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Collapse of the Deepwater Horizon
For more info just google it and go to the wikipedia page.
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North America - Beaver Wars
The Beaver Wars, also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars, commonly refers to a series of conflicts fought in the mid-17th century in eastern North America.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton's photo from law school
Goddamn hippies!
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North America - Anglo-Powhatan Wars
The Anglo-Powhatan Wars were three wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century.
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Neanderthals shared speech and language with modern humans, study suggests
Fast-accumulating data seem to indicate that our close cousins, the Neanderthals, were much more similar to us than imagined even a decade ago. But did they have anything like modern speech and language? And if so, what are the implications for understanding present-day linguistic diversity?
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'Mythical' corpse-eating fly discovered after being declared extinct for 100+ years
The 'bone-skipper', or Centrophlebomyia anthropophaga if you're in a scientific mood, once developed quite a reputation for eating human remains. Not fresh remains, mind you. These flies prefer bodies in advanced stages of decomposition. Thankfully, their diet isn't exclusively human. Bone-skippers love to pick over large animals, and researchers believe they flourished several centuries ago when those animals were more plentiful.
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90 year old $300 refrigerator built in the 1920's that still runs to this day
That would be like $3500 new if counting in inflation.
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The Science and History of Pepper Spray
There is debate over whether pepper spray can cause death—but little over whether, and how, it causes pain.
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World War 2 - Japan's Secret Weapon: Balloon Bombs
The Japanese harnessed air currents to create the first intercontinental weapons—balloon bombs.
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Radovan Karadžić genocide charge reinstated by UN judges
Appeals judges at the United Nations' Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have reinstated a genocide charge against Radovan Karadžić linked to a campaign of killing and mistreating non-Serbs at the start of the Bosnian war in 1992.
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DNA may crack Boston Strangler case
Investigators are on the verge of solving the last of the Boston Strangler killings of the 1960s, thanks to new DNA tests and a sample secretly collected from a relative of longtime suspect Albert DeSalvo.
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Vampire burial ground found in Poland
Skeletons were found with their heads placed on their legs, indicating they had been subjected to execution designed to keep the dead dead
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10 things you didn't know about Nelson Mandela
Most of us know Nelson Mandela as the South African revolutionary and politician whose long imprisonment became a rallying cry for dismantling apartheid. We know that he went on to be elected the first black president of the Republic of South Africa in the first open election in the country's history and that he has remained one of the most inspiring and admired men in modern history.
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How things haven't changed
This political cartoon from the early 20th century tries to portray wealth inequality in the UK.
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23-Million-Year-Old Lizard Found In Amber
A beautiful gem or a scientist's dream? You can have both, as researchers in Mexico recently discovered after finding the remains of a 23-million-year-old lizard fossil, well preserved with soft tissue samples, in a small piece of amber.
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Vintage Mercedes sells for record $30 million
n the history of race cars, this little Mercedes was really something. And it made history again Friday, this time as the most expensive car ever sold at an auction. The 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196, a Formula 1 race car, won two Grand Prix titles under champion driver Juan Manuel Fangio.
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Melting Alaskan Glacier Yields New Remains of Decades-Old Crash
The Alaskan Command is working with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, a division of the Department of Defense, to recover human remains and debris ensconced in an Alaskan glacier from a plane crash that took place 61 years ago. On Nov. 22 1952, an Air...
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Baer’s Odyssey: Meet the serial inventor who built the world’s first game console
ven if you're a devoted fan of video games, there's a decent chance you're not familiar with the name Ralph H. Baer. This should be considered gamer high treason considering Baer's importance in creating the concept of home video games and the vast, varied entertainment ecosystem now built upon them. Despite being the one to push the dominoes toward an industry that currently makes billions of dollars annually, the bulk of the gaming community has largely forgotten about him.
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5 Reasons Why Vincent van Gogh was Jack the Ripper
Author's discovery and research leads to remarkable evidence and shocking conclusion—Vincent van Gogh was Jack the Ripper!
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