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Tattoo parlor in 1942
Cool find.
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Tuskegee's Lynching Map of the United States
This map, compiled using data gathered by the Tuskegee Institute, represents the geographic distribution of lynchings during some of the years when the crime was most widespread in the United States.
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The Worst Dictators You’ve (Probably!) Never Heard Of
Herod. Hitler. Hussein. History is full of notorious baddies — and those are just the H’s we can think of off the top of our heads.
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How Monopoly boards got second world war prisoners out of jail free
Monopoly boards were used by fake charities during the second world war to send maps and messages to prison camps in Nazi-occupied Europe.
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The never-ending war in Paraguay
How a terrible but little-known conflict continues to shape and blight a nation
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History of Pyramids
Get the facts about the history of pyramids around the world.
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Bones and jars of the dead unearthed in 3,000-year-old Egyptian tombs
Archaeologists say they have discovered a string of 3,000-year-old rock tombs in the Egyptian city of Luxor, containing the remains of wooden coffins, skeletons, furniture and canopic jars.
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Abandoned Colony in Greenland: Archaeologists Find Clues to Viking Mystery
For years, researchers have puzzled over why Viking descendents abandoned Greenland in the late 15th century. But archaeologists now believe that economic and identity issues, rather than starvation and disease, drove them back to their ancestral homes.
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Nobody Said 'Racial Equality' in 1865: The Anachronistic English of 'Lincoln'
You can learn a lot from the ways that Tony Kushner's Oscar-nominated script strays from the vernacular of Lincoln's day. Historians Need to Give Steven Spielberg a Break
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Miss Montana: First autistic Miss America contestant
Look for Alexis Wineman when she struts her stuff Saturday night in Las Vegas for the2013 Miss America Competition(ABC, 9 p.m.), because she'll be making history.
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Loaded Revolutionary War-Era Cannon Found In Central Park NY.
A dangerous and historic discovery was made in Central Park on Friday afternoon. Parks workers came upon a live cannon ball, loaded in a cannon that is getting refurbished.
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What Van Gogh's Famous Self-Portrait Looks Like as a Photograph
In a word: creepy. In another word: beautiful.
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The Hitler gun control lie
Gun rights activists who cite the dictator as a reason against gun control have their history dangerously wrong.
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Bus-Size Sea Monster Found, Took On Prey Its Own Size
A new species of prehistoric sea monster unearthed in Nevada chowed down on prey its own size—the first ocean predator that evolved to do so, a new study says.
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6 Ridiculous Myths About the Middle Ages Everyone Believes
You can hardly be blamed for more your wrongfulness, when everything from the movies you watch to your high school history teacher was wrong.
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Rare Photo of A-Bomb Cloud Found in Hiroshima
The photo shows the bomb's mushroom cloud split into two distinct portions, one on top of the other.
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100-year-old photos found in antique camera
A local photographer got more than he bargained for when he bought an antique camera unknowingly loaded with vintage photographs of the World War I era.
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Vintage Vegas: Rare Photos of a Desert Boomtown
Of all the major destination towns in the U.S., Las Vegas might be the most perfectly, unashamedly transparent. No other city in North America, after all — and perhaps no other city in the world — has for so long been so identified with one pursuit: namely, the heart-pounding, more-often-than-not-futile hunt for the improbable, near mythic Big Score.
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Lake Vostok Water Ice Has Been Obtained
In February 2012 Russian scientists and engineers drilled to a depth of nearly 4,000 meters in the ice above Lake Vostok – a 1,300 cubic mile volume of liquid water thought to have formed some 20 million years ago and to have been effectively isolated from the outside world for at least 100,000 years.
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The Myth of Technological Unemployment
In 2012, a lot of firms employed a lot of new labor-saving technology in order to increase profits. That's true. But the same happened in 1992 and 1972 and 1952 and, for that matter, 1852.
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