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Did Hitler escape to Argentina? The bizarre new theory that has historians at war
THOUGH it was approaching midnight in Berlin, the streets were far from dark. On every street, fires raged out of control as the intense and savage Russian artillery bombardment crept closer to the centre of the Third Reich.
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Dutch museums identify art most likely looted by Nazis
A major investigation into whether art hanging in Dutch museums may have been Nazi loot has yielded an unexpectedly large result: 139 suspect works, including ones by masters like Matisse, Klee and Kandinsky.
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Record number of nations oppose US embargo of Cuba in UN vote
In an overwhelming UN vote, 188 countries have called on the US to lift its 53-year trade embargo on Cuba. Havana has slammed the financial sanctions as a flagrant violation of human rights and said they are tantamount to genocide.
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The Place Where Cars For Country Leaders Were Made
We are about to visit the shop where they make executive class cars, and we are going to do it illegally. It’s one of the shops of the factory named after I. A. Likhachev. In some areas it looks abandoned nevertheless it still works and remains under guard.
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Daylight Saving Time 2013: When Does It End? And Why?
Daylight saving—or savings—time ends this weekend. Get the facts on why some of us will get an extra hour of sleep and an earlier sunset.
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10 irresistibly charming World Heritage cities
Ancient monuments. Preserved town centers. Superlative art and architecture. While UNESCO has its World Heritage criteria, what makes a place "charming" is a bit more subjective. Perhaps it comes down to winding cobbled lanes and fairy-tale castles or colorful old houses surrounded by outdoor cafes. Maybe it's just a certain je ne sais quoi.
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The 10 Most Important Digital Cameras of All Time
This time of year, when new digital cameras are being released left and right, is a great opportunity to look back on those pioneering shooters that led the charge from photochemical to digital supremacy. PopPhoto has a great rundown of the 30 most important digital cameras of all time. Here are our 10 favorites.
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Scrap metal collector in New York in the 70's
Old school way of transportation.
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How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees
It's been 25 years since Robert Morris created the first major Internet malware. This is his story.
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The Facts Behind 16 Black Friday Myths
When it comes to deals, few holidays beat Black Friday. Not only will you see many items at their lowest prices of the year, but you'll also see sales on a wide range of items, from clothing to washing machines. However, as we enter the holiday season, it's a good idea to stay vigilant; along with great Black Friday deals comes a lot of hype and misinformation. These 16 Black Friday myths are about to get busted!
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How One Hacker's Mistake Fashioned the Internet You Use Today
The Department of Defense thought the Russians were attacking. An MIT computer called PREP was the first to be penetrated. It was Nov. 2, 1988, and the time was approximately 8 p.m. Within hours and into the following morning, an estimated 10% of all machines connected to the Internet would crash, overloaded with several copies of a mysterious program.
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Mary Shelley’s Handwritten Manuscripts of Frankenstein Now Online for the First Time
Thanks to the newly-opened Shelley-Godwin Archive, you can read “for the first time in digital form all the known manuscripts of Frankenstein,” Mary Shelley’s finest work and arguably the most famous work of British Romanticism.
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Earth's first life may have sprung up in ice
IF YOU thought life evolved in bubbling hot springs, think again. Pieces of RNA have been made that can copy RNA strands longer than themselves, supporting the idea that the first life was based on self-replicating RNA, not DNA. What's more, they work best in the cold, hinting that life began on ice.
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NASA Images Discover Ancient Bridge between India and Sri Lanka
Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam’s Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long.
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Why Americans Love Guns
Americans have always had a romantic notion about the frontier, how we arrived with our guns and honor, and settled the land in a fair fight. The passion extends to firearms themselves, which seem to possess a magic power to turn us into sharp-shooting heroes defending the homestead from any danger. But today our relationship with guns is in turmoil, as the bleak reality impinges on the myths we’ve come to hold dear.
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30 Years Ago Today, Chrysler Invented the Minivan, And Changed History
On November 2nd, 1983, the world's first minivan rolled off of Chrysler's assembly line. It was the vehicle that saved Chrysler from financial doom -- and in the process, shaped the automotive landscape for thirty years to come.
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Bangladesh sentences British Muslim leader, US citizen to hang
A Bangladesh war crimes court Sunday sentenced a British-based Muslim leader and a US citizen to death in absentia for murder, in the latest ruling over atrocities during the war of independence. London-based Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan, from the United States, were found guilty by the International Crimes Tribunal of 11 charges related to the kidnap and slaughter of 18 intellectuals during the 1971 conflict.
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50 years on, finding profit in 'truth' on JFK case
On the very day John F. Kennedy died, a cottage industry was born. Fifty years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, it's still thriving
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The War of Rape: What happened to Jamie Leigh Jones in Iraq?
In December 2007, a doe-eyed young woman named Jamie Leigh Jones appeared on ABC’s 20/20 to tell a terrifying story. Two years before, she said, at the age of twenty, she went to Iraq to work in the Green Zone as a contractor for Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR), then a subsidiary of Halliburton. Soon after arriving, she explained, men clad only in their underwear had begun harassing her in her nearly all-male barracks.
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German police recover 1,500 modernist masterpieces 'looted by Nazis'
Works by Chagall, Klee, Matisse and Picasso – worth up to £860m – had been considered lost until raid on flat in Schwabing.
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