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5 Gigantic Wars You Won't Believe Almost Happened
It's impossible to know exactly what the results would have been, but it's mind-boggling to think how close we were to these.
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Canadian government withheld food from hungry aboriginal kids in 1940s nutritional experiments, researcher finds
Recently published historical research says hungry aboriginal children and adults were once used as unwitting subjects in nutritional experiments by Canadian government bureaucrats.
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17 Amazing Stories of Lost and Found Films
Exciting news for silent comedy fans, movie buffs, and people who generally like things that are awesome: film historian Fernando Pena has discovered an alternate version of the classic Buster Keaton short The Blacksmith, featuring numerous never-before-seen gags and a new ending.
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Schindler’s list is up for auction
“Schindler’s List” is being auctioned off on eBay.No, not a DVD of the Oscar-winning Steven Spielberg film, but one of the original Schindler’s lists — the only one...
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DNA match links confessed Boston Strangler to last slaying in the spree
A definitive DNA match has been made from the remains of Albert DeSalvo, the confessed Boston Strangler, to crime scene evidence from a 1964 slaying that was part of the Stranglerâs murder spree, authorities announced today. DeSalvo confessed before his death to 11 murders that transfixed and terrified Boston 50 years ago..
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Amazon CEO says discovery is Apollo 11 rocket engines
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos rescued sunken treasure in the Atlantic this year: components of two F-1 rocket engines. Now he says he has verified that they are engines from Apollo 11, the first mission that took U.S. astronauts to the moon.
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Large Dinosaurs Had Hundreds of Teeth to Spare
It seems like some of the largest dinosaurs in prehistoric times didn't need to make dental health a priority. A new study published in the journal PLoS One examined the teeth of Camarasaurus and Diplodocus dinosaurs and found that they not only had multiple sets of backup teeth, but also constantly regenerated new ones.
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Archaeologists say they uncovered King David's Palace
Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered two large buildings fit for a king. Not just any king they say; but the palace of Biblical King David.
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The Hindenburg outside the U.S. Navy hangar. New Jersey, 1936
What a massive blimp.
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Who Made That Hair Dryer?
In 1888, Alexandre-Ferdinand Godefroy, a French coiffeur inventeur — that’s hairstylist inventor — patented the hair dryer’s earliest ancestor. The contraption was to be hooked up “to any suitable form of heater,” which would send hot air through a pipe to a dome surrounding the woman’s head.
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Miss America 1924
Bad hair day?
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This Was The Summer Of 1969 In New York City
Here’s a few photographs from the sweltering heat of New York City in 1969, a look back on the free spirit, fashion and individuals that defined an era.
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10 Urban Legends about Famous Scientists
We've all heard stories about killers in the back seat and puppies that turn out to be rats, but hapless heroines aren't the only ones who spawn urban legends. There are a number of urban legends about famous scientists. Some are funny, some are mere inaccuracies, and some are about committing murder by accident.
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Original copy of Oskar Schindler’s list available by auction on eBay starting at $3 million
An original copy of the list of Jews Oskar Schindler saved from the Holocaust is up for sale on eBay, with the starting bid set at $3 million dollars, a Los Angeles auctioneer said Friday.
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How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer?
With all the buzz about the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing I got to thinking, how powerful were the computers that "took us to the Moon?" It turns out, they were nothing short of amazing. If you've never had a nerdy bone in your body, feel free to skip this post. But, if you ever laid on your back under the stars and thought about Mercury, Gemini, Apollo or the Space Shuttle, read on and see if you're as geek-struck as I was researching this.
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US Veteran Travels To North Korea After 60 Years To Keep Promise To Fallen Friend
Two years after he made history by becoming the Navy's first black pilot, Ensign Jesse Brown lay trapped in his downed fighter plane in subfreezing North Korea, his leg broken and bleeding. His wingman crash-landed to try to save him, and even burned his hands trying to put out the flames.
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Before Air-Conditioning
For much of this week, New York, along with the eastern half of the U.S., has been caught up in an unstoppable heat wave. At times like this, it’s hard not to imagine the worst-case scenario. What if, in an apocalyptic turn of events, the world’s air-conditioners just stopped working? What would we do then?
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Back in time: Best Buy flyer from 2001
I can't believe this was only 12 years ago.
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4 Baffling Ways the Continent of Asia Loves Hitler
When you totally excise all the racial purity rhetoric and genocide and wholesale destruction of humanity, Adolf Hitler is basically Mr. Bean. At least that's the verdict of some folks across Asia.
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The Time Obama Was Mistaken for a Waiter at a Tina Brown Book Party
Obama's frank remarks on race and how he also has been seen as someone less than who he is led journalist Katie Rosman of the Wall Street Journal to resurface a 2008 piece about a 2003 garden party at the Manhattan home of media luminaries Tina Brown, now editor of the Daily Beast, and Harold Evans.
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